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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
Looks
Love
Expressed
Places
Usually
Forget
Look

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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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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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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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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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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