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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. (Ann Brashares)
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. View quote
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. View quote
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I killed her once and died for her many times. View quote
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I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them. View quote
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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings. View quote
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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. View quote
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. View quote
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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio. View quote
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. View quote
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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly. (Ann Brashares)
It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake. View quote
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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? View quote
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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't. View quote
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It was wrong. But it was worth it. View quote
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness. View quote
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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. View quote
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You should find him because he loves you. View quote
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination. View quote
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Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) View quote
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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. (Ann Brashares)
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. View quote
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Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what. View quote
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die. View quote
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. View quote
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