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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
People
Behinds
Behind
Leave
Loved

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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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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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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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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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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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