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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
Pretty
Age
Arcs
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Fleeting
Time
Spot
Life
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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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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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.
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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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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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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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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 terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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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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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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