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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Smell
Memory
Memories
Carried

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I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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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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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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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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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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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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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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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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