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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Even
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Never
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Littles
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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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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 got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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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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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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