01UndatedHer need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
02UndatedYou could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
03UndatedThose were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
04UndatedThere was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
05UndatedShe went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
06UndatedWhat made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
08UndatedTibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
09UndatedShe hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
10UndatedShe wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
11UndatedI don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
12UndatedThe distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.Ann Brashares / quote ↗
