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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Behinds
Behind
Leave
Loved
People

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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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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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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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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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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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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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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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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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