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This body is breaking down, but I am not.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Breaking
Body

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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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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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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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