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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Expressed
Places
Usually
Forget
Look
Looks
Love

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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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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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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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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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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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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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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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