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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
Time
Offer
Bitter
Offers
Advice
Beautiful

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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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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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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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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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You should find him because he loves you.
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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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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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