Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 2

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• You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

  Ann Brashares

  Nice, Simple, Secret

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.17, Delacorte Press

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• To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

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  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

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  Destiny, Littles, Coincidence

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

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• She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

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  Strong, Independent, Taste

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

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  Past, Remember, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Feb 15, 2013

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• People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

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  Believe, People, First Impression

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.46, Penguin

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• I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

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  Remember, Forget, Disappear

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

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• 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 the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

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  School, Thinking, House

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.989, Delacorte Press

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• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

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  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

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• Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

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  Life, Funny Love, War

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Apr 08, 2013

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• You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

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  Loss, Victory, Remember

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.58, Penguin

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• I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

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  Mother, Ideas, Motorcycle

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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 they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

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  Makeup, Hair, Sight

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• Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

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  Hate, Love You, Let Me

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 04, 2013

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• Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

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  Ideas, Doubt, Wish

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.940, Delacorte Press

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• He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

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  Three, No Excuses, Realizing

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• 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 up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

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  Light, Circles, Understanding

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.429, Delacorte Press

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• If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

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  Falling In Love, Guy, Feelings

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

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  Smile, Knees, Lava

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.62, Penguin

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• She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

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  Brave, Brain, Would Be

  Ann Brashares (2004). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, Laurel Leaf

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• She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

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  Trying, Alive, Bigs

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.204, Delacorte Press

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• But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

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  Powerful, Two, Soul

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.47, Penguin

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• A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

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  Beautiful, Long, Soul

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.82, Penguin

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• Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

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  Knowing, Half, World

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.142, Penguin

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• It was wrong. But it was worth it.

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  Worth It

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