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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
Forgiving
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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