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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Space
Wanted
Look
Looks
Time
Arch
Life
Arches
Marching
Along

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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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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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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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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 loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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