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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Painful
Dying
Friend
Maybe
Asks
Heartthrob
Didn
Geek
Matter
Possibly
World
Famous

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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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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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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
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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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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.
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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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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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