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Up Quotes by Ann Brashares
- To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
- I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
- He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him,…
- People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
- 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 grew up and…
- Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and…
- People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their…
- How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,…
- How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
- The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
- Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my…
- The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking…
- There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a…
- Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously,…
- How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're…
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