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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
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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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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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I killed her once and died for her many times
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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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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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
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There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
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