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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Experiences
Joints
Wear
Organs
Hold
Affairs
Great
Injury
Love
Affair
Injustice
Skin
Injustices
Skins
Injuries

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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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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 knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris
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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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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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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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