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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Forgets
Forgive
Forgiving
Least
Forget

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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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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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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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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 loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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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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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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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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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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