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Everything good requires sacrifices.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Sacrifices
Requires
Sacrifice
Everything
Good

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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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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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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 tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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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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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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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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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
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