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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 to offer…

— Ann Brashares

People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why…

— Ann Brashares

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

— Lauren Oliver

It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they…

— Kami Garcia

“Lena is sure that other people don't have many selves. She is terrified that she doesn't have a core self, an essential Lena. She…

— Haley Tanner

Basically, what happened was, Lena was on the fence as to whether or not she wanted 'Girls' to have a theme song. She asked…

— Michael Penn

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent…

— Ann Brashares

“She and Effie were already putting on their turtle-and-hare show. Everyone paid lots of attention to Lena at first, because she was striking to…

— Ann Brashares

The old Lena is dead,

— Lauren Oliver

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In…

— Ann Brashares

“Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls…

— Ann Brashares

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to…

— Ann Brashares