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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Ruins
Someday
Harder
Today
Thing
Ruin

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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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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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