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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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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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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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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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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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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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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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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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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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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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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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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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