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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Realizing
Three
Didn
Seems
Good
Excuses
Excuse
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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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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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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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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