Ann Brashares Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

  Ann Brashares

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

• How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

  Ann Brashares

  Giving Up, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.14, Penguin

• Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

  Ann Brashares

  Giving, Aspect

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2012

• It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)

  Ann Brashares

  Self, People, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.166, Random House

• It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

  Ann Brashares

  Memories, Blessing, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

• Luck never gives; it lends.

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  Giving, Luck

• Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

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  Fighting, Giving, Giving In

• His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

  Ann Brashares

  Children, Giving, Married

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.21, Penguin

• Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

  Ann Brashares

  Independent, Giving, Fundamentals

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.55, Random House

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