Ann Brashares Quotes

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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

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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 never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

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I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

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

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You 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.

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He 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.

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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.

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Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

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So far, she'd been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time... We are everywhere.

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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

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Shy was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. Snotty was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

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You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

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For some reason our lives were marked by summers.... Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

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You 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.

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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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Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

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