I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.” — Ann Brashares Possibility Copy Share Image
“A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget” — Ann Brashares Bird Copy Share Image
No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“You don't mean it," he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. "Yes, I do," she said.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions. — Ann Brashares Action Copy Share Image
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned… — Ann Brashares Brain Copy Share Image
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.” — Ann Brashares Heart Copy Share Image
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who… — Ann Brashares Bees 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
People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair,… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“I confess I've relived it so many times, I hardly remember it anymore. My feelings are strong enough to refract and distort… — Ann Brashares Journey Copy Share Image
The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way.… — Ann Brashares Happiness Copy Share Image
“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse… — Ann Brashares Child Copy Share Image
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way.… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn,… — Ann Brashares Communication Copy Share Image
We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was… — Ann Brashares Happiness 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
Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and… — Ann Brashares 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
All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do. — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you. — Ann Brashares Don't talk to me Copy Share Image
Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory. — Ann Brashares Happiness Copy Share Image
“He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?” — Ann Brashares Happiness Copy Share Image
