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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
Way
Household
Busy
Nice

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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.
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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
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Daniel? Yes. Did you ever think we were meant not to be together? No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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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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But like everything else, love changed.
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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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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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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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It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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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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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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