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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
World
Vision
Lena
Heaven
Alternate
Water
Represented
Universe
Stillness
Lost
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Didn
Versions
Beautiful
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Life
Cities
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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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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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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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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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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