Ann Brashares quotes - page 5

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made. (Ann Brashares)
You just have to let people love you in the way they can. View quote
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it. View quote
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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. View quote
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. View quote
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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. View quote
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once. View quote
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You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place. View quote
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The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched. View quote
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn't be. Oh, well. View quote
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She wanted him to notice her so much. (Ann Brashares)
She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy. View quote
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But like everything else, love changed. View quote
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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her. View quote
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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? View quote
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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you. View quote
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I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me. View quote
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Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly. View quote
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross. (Ann Brashares)
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. View quote
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to. View quote
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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. View quote
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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together. View quote
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