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I killed her once and died for her many times

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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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Killed
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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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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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. I'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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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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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'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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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 thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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