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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

Ann Brashares

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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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Chance
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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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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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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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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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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