The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe the truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us you know, being happy isn't having everything in… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share
“When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
“Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
“No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the… — Ann Brashares Copy Share
