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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Ann Brashares

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Maybe
Warped
Happened
Shifted
Actually
Partly
Felt
Dreamed
Happens
Imagined
Truth
Fears
Feel
Definitely
Feels
Wants

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We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
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He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
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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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Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.
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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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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.
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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
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Love is like war easy to begin, hard to end.
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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.
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