But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need. — Ann Brashares Learning Copy Share Image
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
“They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it… — Ann Brashares Dog Copy Share Image
“Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?” — Ann Brashares Ritz Crackers Copy Share Image
“She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.” — Ann Brashares Fall in love Copy Share Image
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. — Ann Brashares Aspect Copy Share Image
“But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant… — Ann Brashares Grateful Copy Share Image
Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your… — Ann Brashares Dieting Copy Share Image
She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it,… — Ann Brashares Astonished Copy Share Image
“The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got… — Ann Brashares Big breast Copy Share Image
A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long… — Ann Brashares Consumed Copy Share Image
What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But… — Ann Brashares Dreams Copy Share Image
“Tibby, you are crazy," Carmen said. "Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind."… — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
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… — Ann Brashares Asks Copy Share Image
“When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try… — Ann Brashares Life Copy Share Image
“Don't open, don't climb, don't reach, and you will not fall. Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you… — Ann Brashares Climb Copy Share Image
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. — Ann Brashares Certain Copy Share Image
“But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in, a… — Ann Brashares Courageous Copy Share Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares Anxious Copy Share Image
She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was… — Ann Brashares Existed Copy Share Image
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks,… — Ann Brashares Acid Copy Share Image
“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.” — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
“Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.” — Ann Brashares Pearl Copy Share Image
I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body… — Ann Brashares Body Copy Share Image
“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.” — Ann Brashares Death Copy Share Image
“I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true.” — Ann Brashares Spirits Day Copy Share Image
I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You… — Ann Brashares Back together Copy Share Image
“I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run… — Ann Brashares Chances Copy Share Image
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good… — Ann Brashares Doubt Copy Share Image
“Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?” — Ann Brashares Fight Copy Share Image
“Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.” — Ann Brashares Apart Copy Share Image
She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always… — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris — Ann Brashares Ask me Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those… — Ann Brashares Kind Copy Share Image
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered… — Ann Brashares Breakfast Copy Share Image
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. — Ann Brashares Change life Copy Share Image
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares Disappear Copy Share Image
“I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can… — Ann Brashares Feel Copy Share Image
“It's wrong, I know, but I play out this dance with him, exquisite and slow. I play it out in my head,… — Ann Brashares Dance Copy Share Image
Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good… — Ann Brashares Different Copy Share Image
