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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
Love
Think
Thinking
Persons
Person

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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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