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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.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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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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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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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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