“Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that… — Ann Brashares 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
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot… — Ann Brashares 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 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 Copy Share Image
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman — Ann Brashares Death Copy Share Image
“but it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares Anxious 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 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 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 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In… — Ann Brashares Benches Copy Share Image
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. — Ann Brashares 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
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. — Ann Brashares 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
“Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?” — Ann Brashares 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
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need. — Ann Brashares Learning Copy Share Image
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how… — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility for everything. When you live nowhere, you live everywhere.” — Ann Brashares 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 Copy Share Image
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares 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 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 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 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 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
“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 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
“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 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
