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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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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
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Child
Reading
Children
Great
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
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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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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.
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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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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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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
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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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You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
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