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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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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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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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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.
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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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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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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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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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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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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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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.
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It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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