Ann Brashares Quotes

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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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The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

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She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

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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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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn't see it.

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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

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Let 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.

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But then she hadn't just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

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I'm sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

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I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

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Sometimes you couldn't face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

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It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

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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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