“I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good… — Ann Brashares Doubt Copy Share Image
“I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.” — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body… — Ann Brashares Body Copy Share Image
“Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.” — Ann Brashares Pearl Copy Share Image
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“She'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. She knew that when she got old it… — Ann Brashares Habits Copy Share Image
She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure… — Ann Brashares Adventure Copy Share Image
You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldnt decide… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“What's the occasion?" she asked. He kissed her ear. "I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride." She laughed.… — Ann Brashares Bride Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Bad jobs Copy Share Image
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of… — Ann Brashares Extremes Copy Share Image
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.” — Ann Brashares Fall in love Copy Share Image
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman — Ann Brashares Death Copy Share Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares Anxious Copy Share Image
“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your… — Ann Brashares Dieting Copy Share Image
“They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it… — Ann Brashares Dog Copy Share Image
“Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need. — Ann Brashares Learning Copy Share Image
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how… — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility for everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. — Ann Brashares Agape Copy Share Image
She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Its natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Or was he the romantic fiction of a girl who'd been desperate for a handsome stranger to come along?” — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
