Ann Brashares

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

— Ann Brashares

“It’s by living that you live more.”

— Ann Brashares

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

— Ann Brashares

Everything good requires sacrifices.

— Ann Brashares

But it was smell that carried memory.

— Ann Brashares

“I wanted to come more than halfway.”

— Ann Brashares

Wear them, they will make you brave.

— Ann Brashares

“Skinny girls have skinny minds”

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“The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part.”

— Ann Brashares

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

— Ann Brashares

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

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Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

— Ann Brashares

“His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.”

— Ann Brashares

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

— Ann Brashares

There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.

— Ann Brashares

When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

— Ann Brashares

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough…

— Ann Brashares

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

— Ann Brashares

“As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started.”

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“Bridget loved the Marly who glittered and preened, but this was the woman she remembered. That was how the story went. That…

— Ann Brashares

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

— Ann Brashares

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular…

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“There was a burst of enthusiasm for recycling every so often, but it usually didn't extend to the heart or the mind.…

— Ann Brashares

“The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible…

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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be……

— Ann Brashares

Tibby was shaking her head. "What?" Bailey asked. "Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her.…

— Ann Brashares

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it…

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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness…

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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I…

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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all…

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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers…

— Ann Brashares

It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She…

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People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair,…

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“...Alice kept thinking about that passage from one part of life to another. She kept thinking, Is this it? Will I know…

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He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over…

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I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want…

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“There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was…

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Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that…

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