Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001)

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I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

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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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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared...," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

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The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

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

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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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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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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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