She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted… — Ann Brashares Able Copy Share Image
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment… — Ann Brashares Absence Copy Share Image
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed. — Ann Brashares Matter Copy Share Image
He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did. — Ann Brashares Scared Copy Share Image
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) — Ann Brashares Children Copy Share Image
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and… — Ann Brashares Age Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. — Ann Brashares Feels Copy Share Image
“Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the… — Ann Brashares Change Copy Share Image
“I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the… — Ann Brashares Nature of man Copy Share Image
Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting… — Ann Brashares Fear Copy Share Image
Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later… — Ann Brashares Beach Copy Share Image
“When we stopped to eat in the midday, she spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill… — Ann Brashares Smiled Copy Share Image
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and… — Ann Brashares Feel better Copy Share Image
She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But… — Ann Brashares Courageous Copy Share Image
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times… — Ann Brashares Bitter Copy Share Image
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you… — Ann Brashares Advice Copy Share Image
“I always search for her; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.” — Ann Brashares Hope Copy Share Image
I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from… — Ann Brashares Faces Copy Share Image
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was… — Ann Brashares Contact Copy Share Image
“There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way… — Ann Brashares People Thought Copy Share Image
“The conversation flowed and stopped and started as it would, a third thing in the room, not quite controlled by either of… — Ann Brashares Communication Copy Share Image
“She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.” — Ann Brashares Bugs Copy Share Image
“This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have… — Ann Brashares Advice Copy Share Image
When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away… — Ann Brashares Criticize Copy Share Image
“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide… — Ann Brashares Feeling Copy Share Image
Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me… — Ann Brashares Feels Copy Share Image
“We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives… — Ann Brashares Actor Copy Share Image
Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what. — Ann Brashares Always love you Copy Share Image
“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that… — Ann Brashares Celebrate Copy Share Image
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved… — Ann Brashares Choices Copy Share Image
Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved… — Ann Brashares Exception Copy Share Image
“She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.” — Ann Brashares Dream Copy Share Image
Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once… — Ann Brashares Always loved you Copy Share Image
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on… — Ann Brashares Age Copy Share Image
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word. — Ann Brashares Happy Copy Share Image
He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space… — Ann Brashares Arches Copy Share Image
“Live, laugh, love. When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you… — Ann Brashares Laugh love Copy Share Image
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time. — Ann Brashares Disappointed Copy Share Image
“He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.” — Ann Brashares Blessings Copy Share Image
“She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them.… — Ann Brashares Discarded Copy Share Image
