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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
Forget
Look
Looks
Love
Expressed
Places
Usually

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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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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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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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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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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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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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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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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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