Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) — Ann Brashares Children Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment… — Ann Brashares Absence Copy Share Image
Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was… — Ann Brashares Doubt Copy Share Image
I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked.… — Ann Brashares Brutal 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But… — Ann Brashares Courageous Copy Share Image
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and… — 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later… — Ann Brashares Beach Copy Share Image
“When we stopped to eat in the midday, she spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant… — Ann Brashares Grateful Copy Share Image
“I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the… — Ann Brashares Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Don't open, don't climb, don't reach, and you will not fall. Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try… — Ann Brashares Life Copy Share Image
“But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in, a… — Ann Brashares Courageous Copy Share Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting… — Ann Brashares Fear Copy Share Image
“She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given… — Ann Brashares Care Copy Share Image
“Tibby, you are crazy," Carmen said. "Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind."… — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no… — Ann Brashares Communion Copy Share Image
He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was… — Ann Brashares Fight Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But… — Ann Brashares Dreams Copy Share Image
“Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got… — Ann Brashares Big breast Copy Share Image
A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“For nine years Paul had not called her by her name. She had always been "Shorty" or "Kid" or "You" to him… — Ann Brashares Waitress Copy Share Image
There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all… — Ann Brashares Big changes Copy Share Image
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on… — Ann Brashares Memories Copy Share Image
There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was… — Ann Brashares Emotion Copy Share Image
It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
