Ann Brashares quotes

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions. (Ann Brashares)
you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you. View quote
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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. View quote
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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this... Ready ” "Ready.” "At least I tried. View quote
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Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother. View quote
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Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. View quote
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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. View quote
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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. View quote
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word. View quote
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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. View quote
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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem. (Ann Brashares)
I love you, I'll never stop. View quote
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You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful. View quote
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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not. View quote
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She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper. View quote
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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back. View quote
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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you? View quote
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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. View quote
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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. (Ann Brashares)
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. View quote
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Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. View quote
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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. View quote
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Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product. View quote
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