“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about… — Ann Brashares Happiness Copy Share Image
“It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she… — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at… — Ann Brashares Bottom Copy Share Image
“Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting… — Ann Brashares Anger Copy Share Image
“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever… — Ann Brashares Cried Copy Share Image
“...he had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to… — Ann Brashares Courage Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old… — Ann Brashares Nostalgia Copy Share Image
You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldnt decide… — Ann Brashares Feel Things Copy Share Image
“She'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. She knew that when she got old it… — Ann Brashares Habits Copy Share Image
I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of… — Ann Brashares Extremes Copy Share Image
Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to… — Ann Brashares Dread Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Bad jobs Copy Share Image
“Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be… — Ann Brashares Sisterhood Copy Share Image
“She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part… — Ann Brashares Bossy Copy Share Image
“She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and… — Ann Brashares Rain Copy Share Image
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t… — Ann Brashares Appreciate Copy Share Image
“By day she studied and touched her mother’s things, and by night, she dreamed about them. The dreams gave her as fragmented… — Ann Brashares Dreamed Copy Share Image
“In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on… — Ann Brashares Feet Copy Share Image
She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits… — Ann Brashares Blinded Copy Share Image
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how… — Ann Brashares Bothered Copy Share Image
“You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself… — Ann Brashares Comfort Copy Share Image
Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get… — Ann Brashares Apartment Copy Share Image
“Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your… — Ann Brashares Life Copy Share Image
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and… — Ann Brashares Admire Copy Share Image
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and… — Ann Brashares Collars Copy Share Image
“Carma, Here are the Pants and a little sketch I made of Leo. From memory, not from life. (And no, I'm not… — Ann Brashares Day and night Copy Share Image
“Maybe the truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us you know, being happy isn't having everything in… — Ann Brashares Happiness Copy Share Image
“What is it we recognize? The soul is a mysterious thing. It's no less mysterious for me, though I've seen my own… — Ann Brashares Spirituality Copy Share Image
“Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on… — Ann Brashares Memories Copy Share Image
There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was… — Ann Brashares Emotion Copy Share Image
It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place… — Ann Brashares Cereal Copy Share Image
There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all… — Ann Brashares Big changes Copy Share Image
“Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do… — Ann Brashares Remembered Copy Share Image
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised… — Ann Brashares Half Copy Share Image
“They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.” — Ann Brashares Absolutely Copy Share Image
“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.” — Ann Brashares Possibility Copy Share Image
