Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 5

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• The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

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  Ocean, Water, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 05, 2012

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• All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

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  Looks, Way, Feels

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.13, Penguin

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• You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

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  Feelings, Way, Trouble

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin

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• She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

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  Heart, Oh Well, Wells

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.983, Delacorte Press

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• I love you, I'll never stop.

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  Love You

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

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• Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

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  Looks, Way, Expected

  Ann Brashares (2009). “3 Willows”, p.249, Delacorte Press

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• Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

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  Beautiful, Mourning, Joy

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

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• Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

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  Needs, Sometimes, Mess

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• Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

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  Sadness, Comfort, Faces

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.18, Penguin

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• Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

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  Beautiful, People, Beautiful People

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.22, Delacorte Press

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• There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.

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  Guy, Insult, Wells

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• Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

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• The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.

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  Sunshine, Air, Weather

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• 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, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.

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  Hurt, Hate, World

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.640, Delacorte Press

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• Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

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  Father, People, Cases

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

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  Happenings

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2011

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• Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

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  Grandmother, Wish, Needs

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 24, 2012

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• She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

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  Years, Progress, Three

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.473, Delacorte Press

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• One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

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  Memories, Promise, Good Memories

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

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• It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

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  Mother, Long Ago, Jeans

  Ann Brashares (2003). “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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• There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

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  Caring, Quality, Gone

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

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• She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

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  Thinking, Different, Hey

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Last Summer (of You & Me)”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

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  Ordinary, Careful, Turns

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.16, Penguin

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• I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

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  Needs, Wanted, Know Me

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.23, Penguin

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• She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

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  Wish, Unhappy, Made

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.133, Random House

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