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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
Really
Fall
Write
Truthfully
Tell
Chips
Stories
Dont
May
Lessons
Ideas
Teach
Writing
Story
Trying
Idea

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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
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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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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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She existed in her friends there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.
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Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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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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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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