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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
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Lena
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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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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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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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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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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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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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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 perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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