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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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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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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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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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It was wrong. But it was worth 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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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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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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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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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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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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