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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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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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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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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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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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She closed her eyes. I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him. Why? Because I wanted to be with you.
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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
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What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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