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

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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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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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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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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
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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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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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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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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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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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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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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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