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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Trying
Ease
Something
Exactly
Lose
Loses
Somebody
Pain
Running
Anything

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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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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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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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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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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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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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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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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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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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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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