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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fragile
Everyone
Beautiful
Everything

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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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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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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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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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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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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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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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I killed her once and died for her many times
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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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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
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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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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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