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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
Cleanse
Reflection
Couldn
Forget

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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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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 wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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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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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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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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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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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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