Ann Brashares Quotes

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• Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch…
• Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense…
• There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle…
• Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around,…
• I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I…
• When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
• You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across…
• Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .
• I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.
• Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of…
• A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings,…
• I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
• I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
• For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had…
• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe…
• I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
• A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things…
• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different…
• As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

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