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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Hey
Greek
Someday
Word
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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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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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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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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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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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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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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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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