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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
Stories
Writing
Really
Think
Thinking
World
Open
Story
Write

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I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
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Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
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Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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Everything good requires sacrifices.
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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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Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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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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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
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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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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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