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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Victories
Losses
Victory
Loss
Forget
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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