01UndatedParents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
02UndatedWhen you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
03UndatedLove 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.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
04UndatedLet me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
05UndatedLove demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
06Undatedsome people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
07UndatedYou know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - CarmenAnn Brashares / quote ↗
08UndatedHe wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
09UndatedShe knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
10UndatedHe loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
11UndatedShe thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
12UndatedYou have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
13UndatedMaybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go. Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
14UndatedI'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.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
15UndatedWhen she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
16UndatedYou couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
17UndatedLena 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.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
18UndatedTry, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
19UndatedMaybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
21UndatedI was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
22UndatedHow sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
23UndatedIt was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
24UndatedYou thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
