Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 3

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• Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

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  Memories, Agony, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 29, 2013

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• The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

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  Worry, Getting What You Want, Want

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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• Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.

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  Believe, Heart, Make You Happy

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2013

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• What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

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  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.215, Penguin

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• Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

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  Thinking, Together, Want

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• I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

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  Swimming, Dying, Together

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.206, Penguin

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• There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

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  Transition, Moments, Midst

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jul 05, 2013

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• You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

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  Said, Knows, Dies

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name Is Memory”, p.356, Hachette UK

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• I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

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  Firsts, Remember, My Sister

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Last Summer (of You & Me)”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• 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 purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.

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  Heart, Views, Two

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

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  Bees, Ghost, Dramatic

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.228, Delacorte Press

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• Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

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  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.336, Delacorte Press

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• She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

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  Tired, Want, Able

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.383, Delacorte Press

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• I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

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  Mean, Knowing, Way

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.415, Delacorte Press

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• Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

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  Said

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.452, Delacorte Press

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• Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

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  Care, Hated

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.12, Penguin

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• Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

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  Girl, Feet, Pants

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• She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

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  Long Ago, Missing, Soul

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• The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

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  Forget, Enough, Bigs

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.221, Delacorte Press

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• It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

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  Voice, Effort, Perception

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

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  Sin, Original Sin, Knows

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.38, Penguin

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• Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

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  Mother, World, Honestly

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.12, Penguin

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• It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She was attracted to all of the normal things and the weird things, too, like the back of his neck and his thumbs on the edge of his desk and the way his hair stuck out on one side like a little wing over his ear. She caught his smell once, and it made her dizzy. She couldn't fall asleep that night.

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  Fall, Night, Hair

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• There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

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  Parent, Pieces, Slides

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• As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.

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  Fashion, Home, Roots

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