Ann Brashares - Love Quotes

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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

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

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

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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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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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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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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

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Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

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Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

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Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

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Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

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The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you ll keep faith in me, you ll remember who we are, and you ll never feel despair.

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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

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