Ann Brashares

“I wanted to come more than halfway.”

— Ann Brashares

But it was smell that carried memory.

— Ann Brashares

Everything good requires sacrifices.

— Ann Brashares

I love you, I'll never stop.

— Ann Brashares

“how could he wait until midnight?”

— Ann Brashares

“Skinny girls have skinny minds”

— Ann Brashares

Wear them, they will make you brave.

— Ann Brashares

“It’s by living that you live more.”

— Ann Brashares

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

— Ann Brashares

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

— Ann Brashares

“loving a person was all you could do.”

— Ann Brashares

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

— Ann Brashares

“She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better.”

— Ann Brashares

I like that you let yourself be surprised

— Ann Brashares

“when life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?”

— Ann Brashares

“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”

— Ann Brashares

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

— Ann Brashares

“She was already lost - she couldn't really get more lost, could she? When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere”

— Ann Brashares

“Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.”

— Ann Brashares

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

— Ann Brashares

“The world was full of death, full of sadness, full of people, full of people too broken to lean on.”

— Ann Brashares

“She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams. Were you allowed to change from one…

— Ann Brashares

“I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.”

— Ann Brashares

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

— Ann Brashares

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives…

— Ann Brashares

She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I…

— Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll…

— Ann Brashares

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and…

— Ann Brashares

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million…

— Ann Brashares

You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your…

— Ann Brashares

“I'm afraid of not having enough time," she clarified. "Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be…

— Ann Brashares

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of…

— Ann Brashares

“When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The…

— Ann Brashares

“She and Effie were already putting on their turtle-and-hare show. Everyone paid lots of attention to Lena at first, because she was…

— Ann Brashares

“Usually by this time in the summer, we were as worn in to one another as pebbles in a riverbed. For three…

— Ann Brashares

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved.…

— Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt…

— Ann Brashares

“Greta was squinting at the Pants. "Are those yours?" she asked. Bridget nodded. "Would you like me to wash 'em for you?…

— Ann Brashares

Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know…

— Ann Brashares

“Dad, Please accept this money to fix the broken window. I’m sure it’s already fixed, considering Lydia’s house pride and her phobia…

— Ann Brashares