Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“...Alice kept thinking about that passage from one part of life to another. She kept thinking, Is this it? Will I know… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you… — 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 Copy Share Image
You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all… — 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 Copy Share Image
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about… — Ann Brashares 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 Copy Share Image
“Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this… — 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 Copy Share Image
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.” — Ann Brashares 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
“...he had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“That was her life's challenge. Not to shy away from the pain. Not to deny it, but rather to take it on.… — Ann Brashares 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
“Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to… — 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
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“¿Iban a sumirla en la tristeza antes de hacerla feliz? No, por favor.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Lena remembered herself in all the old familiar things they said. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.” — 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 don't have… — Ann Brashares 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 at least… — 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 and tenderness… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
