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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said Walk the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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