Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 6

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• Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

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  Fighting, Giving, Giving In

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• She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

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  Sadness

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.172, Penguin

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• Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

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  Beautiful, Cities, Water

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• It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

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  Dream, People, Done

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.293, Random House

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• Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

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  Peace, Sex, Weapons

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

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• He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

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  Eye, Thinking, Looks

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.24, Penguin

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• He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

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  Space, Looks, Arches

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

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• Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

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  Memories, Keys, Sometimes

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.172, Penguin

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• This body is breaking down, but I am not.

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  Body, Breaking Down

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

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• You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

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  Great Love, Skins, Joints

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.102, 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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• She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

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  Long, Quiet, Hours

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.21, Random House

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• She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

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  Fun, Adventure, Romance

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.22, Random House

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• She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

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  Forgotten

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.38, Random House

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• Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

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  Self, Years, People

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.119, Random House

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• But like everything else, love changed.

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  Changed

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• How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

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  Relieved, Disappointed, Persons

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• Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

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  Long, Separation, Mourn

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• 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.

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  Independent, Giving, Fundamentals

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

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• Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

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  Hurt, Memories, Sky

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.74, Random House

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• There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

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  Strong, Land, Emotion

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.75, Random House

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• She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

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  Broken Heart, Past, Empty

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.84, Random House

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• A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

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  Years, Long, Tangled

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

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  Running, Pain, Trying

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