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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
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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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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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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
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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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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 cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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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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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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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Ann Brashares
Born:
July 30, 1967
(age 56)
Bio:
Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.
Known for:
Sisterhood Everlasting (2011)
My Name Is Memory (2010)
The Here and Now (2014)
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001)
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