“she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. — Ann Brashares 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 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
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed. — Ann Brashares 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 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
For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when… — Ann Brashares Birthday Copy Share Image
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“She had that frustrating dreamlike confusion of racking her brain for the answer then forgetting what the question was. There was a… — Ann Brashares Confusion Copy Share Image
Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your… — Ann Brashares Life Copy Share Image
“You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself… — Ann Brashares Comfort 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
“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 Copy Share Image
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. — Ann Brashares Agape Copy Share Image
She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Its natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Or was he the romantic fiction of a girl who'd been desperate for a handsome stranger to come along?” — Ann Brashares Love Copy Share Image
Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“he is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it. — Ann Brashares Best friend Copy Share Image
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.” — Ann Brashares Girls 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 Copy Share Image
“You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way :)” — Ann Brashares 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
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time. — Ann Brashares Disappointed 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 Copy Share Image
“It was so hard to live the right kind of life, even if you knew what it was.” — Ann Brashares 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 Copy Share Image
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word. — Ann Brashares 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
“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
