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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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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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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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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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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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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. 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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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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