Ann Brashares quotes - page 2

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. (Ann Brashares)
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. View quote
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Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. View quote
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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look. View quote
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. View quote
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. View quote
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I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny. View quote
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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. (Ann Brashares)
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses. View quote
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. View quote
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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. View quote
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But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. View quote
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be... to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Healing wasn't always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that. (Ann Brashares)
She wasn't sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both. View quote
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Sometimes you couldn't face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wear them, they will make you brave. View quote
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