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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Firsts
First
Sometimes
Believe
Impressions
People
Impression
Talk
Truth
Power

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I love you, I'll never stop.
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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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I killed her once and died for her many times
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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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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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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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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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