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

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Giving, Aspect

Twitter post from Aug 23, 2012

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She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

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Smell, Bags, Tonight

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

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Mother, Annoyed, Said

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

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Cutting, Tree, Matter

Twitter post from Jan 02, 2013

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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

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Littles, Made, Irritating

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.876, Delacorte Press

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And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

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Blue, Color, Essentials

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What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

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Girl, Our Actions, Obsessed

Twitter post from Feb 18, 2010

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During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

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Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

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Sister, Writing, People

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.461, Delacorte Press

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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

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Fall, Trying, May

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.645, Delacorte Press

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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, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

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Beautiful, Running, Home

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Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

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Life Is Too Short, Long, Would Be

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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

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Falling In Love, Fall, People

Twitter post from Jan 28, 2010

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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

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Waiting, Relief, Too Much

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

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Parent, Doubted

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.910, Delacorte Press

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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 hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

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Makeup, Hair, Sight

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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 quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

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Kids, Dark, Lunch

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What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

Ann Brashares

How You Feel, Want, Feels

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.207, Delacorte Press

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She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

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Wanted, Ifs

Twitter post from Apr 28, 2010

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All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

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Thinking, Persons, Can Do

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.110, Penguin

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Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

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Pain, Not Afraid

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.118, Penguin

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Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

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People, Way, Would Be

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.132, Penguin

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She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

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Together, Grenade, Supposed To Be

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.134, Penguin

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But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

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Moving, Together, Goes On

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Nov 16, 2012

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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 doing anyway, my dear.

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Expression, Waiting, Serious

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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