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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
Ann Brashares
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
Ann Brashares
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Ann Brashares
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
Ann Brashares
She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
Ann Brashares
It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
Ann Brashares