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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Possibility
Everything
Nothing

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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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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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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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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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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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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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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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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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