He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse. — Ann Brashares Excuse Copy Share Image
All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see? — Ann Brashares Certain Copy Share Image
Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually… — Ann Brashares Fit Copy Share Image
“Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.” — Ann Brashares Apart Copy Share Image
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it. — Ann Brashares Blurry Copy Share Image
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other… — Ann Brashares Pain Copy Share Image
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her… — Ann Brashares Feet Copy Share Image
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
“Mattie felt sympathy and judgement growing together. They didn't cancel each other out.” — Ann Brashares Growing together Copy Share Image
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She… — Ann Brashares Alive Copy Share Image
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life… — Ann Brashares Being happy Copy Share Image
Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply,… — Ann Brashares Carrots Copy Share Image
I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and… — Ann Brashares Chips Copy Share Image
She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I… — Ann Brashares Believe Copy Share Image
He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her… — Ann Brashares Beautiful Copy Share Image
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much… — Ann Brashares Finished product Copy Share Image
It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it… — Ann Brashares Aloud Copy Share Image
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of… — Ann Brashares Blue Copy Share Image
“Lena was suspicious of many things. But she had earned her suspicions about boys. Lena knew boys. They never looked beyond your… — Ann Brashares Best friend Copy Share Image
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship… — Ann Brashares Approach Copy Share Image
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to… — Ann Brashares Deserve Copy Share Image
He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over… — Ann Brashares Arms Copy Share Image
The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch… — Ann Brashares Focus Copy Share Image
You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping… — Ann Brashares Blood Copy Share Image
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one. — Ann Brashares Brave Copy Share Image
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. — Ann Brashares Feel Copy Share Image
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares Broke Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones. — Ann Brashares Bigs Copy Share Image
