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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
World
Chance
Slim
Moment
Options
Girl
Eternity
Moments
Saws
Didn
Choice
Happens
Couldn
Made
Happen
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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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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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