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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
Chance
Care
Chances
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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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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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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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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