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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
Forgive
Forgiving
Least
Forget
Forgets

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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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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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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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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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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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