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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fight
Fighting
Wrong
Felt
Without
Giving
Something

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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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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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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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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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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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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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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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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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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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