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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
World
Famous
Painful
Dying
Friend
Maybe
Asks
Heartthrob
Didn
Geek
Matter
Possibly

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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
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Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
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Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
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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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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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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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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
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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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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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