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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Think
Thinking
World
Open
Story
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Stories
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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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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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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But it was smell that carried memory.
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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
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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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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.
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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
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