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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
Great
Injury
Love
Affair
Injustice
Skin
Injustices
Skins
Injuries
Experiences
Joints
Wear
Organs
Hold
Affairs

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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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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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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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