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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Like
Begin
War
Easy
Ends
Hard
Love
Life

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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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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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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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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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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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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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