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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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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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But like everything else, love changed.
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Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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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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I love you, I'll never stop.
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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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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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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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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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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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