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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
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Love
People
Way

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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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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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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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