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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Forget
Remember
Victories
Losses
Victory
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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