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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Problem
Sparrows
Caribbean
Pirate
Coach
Coaches
Attitude

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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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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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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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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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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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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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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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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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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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