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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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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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The path of your life can change in an instant.
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But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?
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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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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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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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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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