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

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Chances
Hasn
Chance
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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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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