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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.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Making
Vital
Beautiful
Prime
Back
Decisions
Look
Mistakes
Looks
Critical
Sometimes
Supposed
Life
Mistake
Decision

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.
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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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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
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When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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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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Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
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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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