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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Fragile
Everyone
Beautiful
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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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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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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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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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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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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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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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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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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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