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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Persons
Person
Love
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Thinking

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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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Tibby was shaking her head. What? Bailey asked. Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day, Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. I like that you let yourself be suprised.
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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