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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
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Shows
Real
Thing
Delusions
Delusion
Size
Took

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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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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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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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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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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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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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But like everything else, love changed.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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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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