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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Forgetting
Remembering
Searching
Disappear
Forget
Remember
Disappearing

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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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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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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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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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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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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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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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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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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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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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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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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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