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Everything good requires sacrifices.

Ann Brashares

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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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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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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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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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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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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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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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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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