Ann Brashares Quotes

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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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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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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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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

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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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Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

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

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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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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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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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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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