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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
Nice
Way
Household
Busy

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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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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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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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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
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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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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered 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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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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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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How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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