Looks Quotes by Ann Brashares

11 Looks quotes by Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares captures the pulse of teenage experience, and in these eleven concise quotes she turns that ear to the subject of looks. The collection reads like a quick diary entry on how young people negotiate appearance and identity.

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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

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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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There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

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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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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm,…

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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming…

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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But…

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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space…

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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want…

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It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship…

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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure…

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Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

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“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.”

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

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The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness…

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