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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
Life
Spots
Features
Stand
Pretty
Age
Arcs
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Feature
Much
Fleeting
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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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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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
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I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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I like that you let yourself be surprised
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.
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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
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Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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