A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. — Ann Brashares Beautiful Copy Share Image
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things:… — Ann Brashares Book Copy Share Image
“But why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart? —Taylor Swift” — Ann Brashares Good heart Copy Share Image
She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of… — Ann Brashares Habit Copy Share Image
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She… — Ann Brashares Alive Copy Share Image
All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say.… — 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
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse… — Ann Brashares Child Copy Share Image
She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who… — Ann Brashares Bees 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
“I confess I've relived it so many times, I hardly remember it anymore. My feelings are strong enough to refract and distort… — Ann Brashares Journey Copy Share Image
He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her… — Ann Brashares Beautiful 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Mattie felt sympathy and judgement growing together. They didn't cancel each other out.” — Ann Brashares Growing together Copy Share Image
I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm… — Ann Brashares China Copy Share Image
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
“If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't… — Ann Brashares Choice Copy Share Image
“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Yeah. You know what I think?" What?" So intense was Tibby, she had practically shoved the phone into her ear cavity. She… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. — Ann Brashares Anger Copy Share Image
“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and… — Ann Brashares Self absorption Copy Share Image
“You don't mean it," he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. "Yes, I do," she said.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions. — Ann Brashares Action Copy Share Image
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it. — Ann Brashares Beautiful Copy Share Image
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always… — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
“Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?” — Ann Brashares Fight Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.” — Ann Brashares Death Copy Share Image
