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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
Easier
Bigs
Much
Expectations
Ones

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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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You should find him because he loves you.
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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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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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