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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Offer
Bitter
Offers
Advice
Beautiful
Time

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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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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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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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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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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. I'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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