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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Humor
Thier
Walks
Mile
Funny
Hilarious
Away
Criticize
Someone
Miles
Way
Shoes
Walk

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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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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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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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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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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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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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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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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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