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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
Disappearing
Forgetting
Remembering
Searching
Disappear
Forget
Remember

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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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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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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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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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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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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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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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