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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Cleanse
Reflection
Couldn
Forget

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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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 was wrong. But it was worth it.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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