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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Thing
Delusions
Delusion
Size
Took
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Shows
Real

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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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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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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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