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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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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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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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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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