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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Carry
Past
Remember
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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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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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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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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
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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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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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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 loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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