ABAnn Brashares

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Ann Brashares

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

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02Undated

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

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03Undated

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

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04Undated

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.

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05Undated

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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06Undated

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

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07Undated

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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08Undated

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

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09Undated

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

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10Undated

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

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11Undated

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

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12Undated

They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.

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13Undated

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

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14Undated

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

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15Undated

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

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16Undated

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

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17Undated

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

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18Undated

Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

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19Undated

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

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20Undated

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

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21Undated

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

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22Undated

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

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23Undated

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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24Undated

She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

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