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But it was smell that carried memory.

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

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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
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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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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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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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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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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 just have to let people love you in the way they can
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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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