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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Afraid
Pain
Fear

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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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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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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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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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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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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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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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