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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
Losses
Victory
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Forget
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Victories

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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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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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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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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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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 love you, I'll never stop.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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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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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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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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