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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.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Write
Truthfully
Tell
Chips
Stories
Dont
May
Lessons
Ideas
Teach
Writing
Story
Trying
Idea
Really
Fall

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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.
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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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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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