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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fearful
Hadn
Chosen
Brave
Small
Life

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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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