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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
People
Death
Dream
Unaccountably
Back
Forgiven
Might
Failures
Matter
Loved
Done
Came
Life
Friends
Like
Lost

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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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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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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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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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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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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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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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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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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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