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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Sparrows
Caribbean
Pirate
Coach
Coaches
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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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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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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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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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. 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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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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