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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Household
Busy
Nice
Way

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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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I killed her once and died for her many times
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.
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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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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
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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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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
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But like everything else, love changed.
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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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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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The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.
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Wear them, they will make you brave.
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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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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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