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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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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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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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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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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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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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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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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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She wanted him to notice her so much.
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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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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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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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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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