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

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Thinking
Persons
Person
Love
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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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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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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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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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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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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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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