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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
Parts
Messy
Products
Uncertain
Point
Display
Keep
Hide
Much
Mess
Product
Liked
Finished
Lena

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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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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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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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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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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, 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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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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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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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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