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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Dying
Living
Without

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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.
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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.
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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.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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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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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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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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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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Luck never gives it lends.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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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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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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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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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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