"They were here all at once, but not……" — Ann Brashares
"They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing."
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287 Quotes by Ann Brashares
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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
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