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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
Easy
Ends
Hard
Love
Life
Like
Begin
War

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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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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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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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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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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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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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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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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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