“It was hard keeping the love and hate separate in their family.” — Ann Brashares Family Copy Share Image
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
“The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part.” — Ann Brashares Forgetting Copy Share Image
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well. — Ann Brashares 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
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
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
“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and… — Ann Brashares Ancient Copy Share Image
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin — Ann Brashares Attitude Copy Share Image
“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 Anger Copy Share Image
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans. — Ann Brashares 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
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of… — Ann Brashares Beautiful 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
“Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“But now he held her. He forgot to worry as much about waking her up. She turned her body to his, eyes… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“You broke up with him," a combination Effie-Carmen voice in her head reminded her. "But that didn't mean you were allowed to… — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers… — Ann Brashares Beautiful Copy Share Image
She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't… — 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
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that… — Ann Brashares Cold Copy Share Image
I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything. — Ann Brashares Funny Copy Share Image
“His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.” — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem. — Ann Brashares Attitude Copy Share Image
