He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. — Ann Brashares Delusion Copy Share Image
you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget” — Ann Brashares Bird Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.” — Ann Brashares Business Copy Share Image
It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age. — Ann Brashares Age Copy Share Image
She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts. — Ann Brashares Bees Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. — Ann Brashares Abstract Copy Share Image
“The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot” — Ann Brashares Angel Copy Share Image
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“What was powerful at thirteen and seventeen should have grown quaint by twenty-four, and yet the covenant, by its nature had durability.… — Ann Brashares Covenant Copy Share Image
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or… — Ann Brashares Baby Copy Share Image
I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three… — Ann Brashares Body Copy Share Image
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you… — Ann Brashares Advice Copy Share Image
He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when… — Ann Brashares Birthday Copy Share Image
Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want… — Ann Brashares Embarrassed 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship… — Ann Brashares Approach 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
She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that… — 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 Communication Copy Share Image
We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.” — Ann Brashares Possibility Copy Share Image
