Heart Quotes by Ann Brashares

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

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Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

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She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

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“No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.”

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“His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.”

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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.

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“He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?”

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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She…

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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say.…

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“d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all…

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She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of…

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“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want…

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So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.…

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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned…

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“Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around.”

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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out…

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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three…

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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt…

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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get…

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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was…

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“She was never going to be the kind of person who didn't stick out in all directions. To want it was the…

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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping…

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Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later…

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Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do…

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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

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“She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.”

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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at…

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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

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“She wasn’t comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.”

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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

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“She had that frustrating dreamlike confusion of racking her brain for the answer then forgetting what the question was. There was a…

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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how…

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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In…

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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised…

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“She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them.…

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