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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Expectations
Ones
Easier
Bigs
Much

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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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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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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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