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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Couldn
Fight
Memories
Fighting
Experiences
Anymore
Skills

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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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