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

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Couldn
Forget
Cleanse
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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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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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. I'm scared... , she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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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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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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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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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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