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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Flip
Love
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.
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