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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
Look
Looks
Love
Expressed
Places
Usually
Forget

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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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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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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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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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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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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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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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