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She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

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Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name Is Memory”, p.292, Hachette UK

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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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Moving, Character, Strange

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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

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Book, Isolation, Imagine

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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

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Moving, Each Day, Littles

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

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Jobs, Writing, Mean

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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

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Writing, Ideas, Doubt

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Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

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Grief, Three, Six Months

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.117, Random House

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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

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Fall, Writing, Ideas

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from May 21, 2013

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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

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Girl, Teenage, Writing

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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

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Beautiful, Tree, Growing

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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

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People, Able, Feels

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Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .

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Love You, Love Yourself

Twitter post from Jul 25, 2012

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I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.

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Unique, Thinking, Insecurity

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jul 19, 2012

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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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Character, Age, Fleeting

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 06, 2011

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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

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Spiritual, Memories, Coffee

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Sep 26, 2011

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I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.

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Knowing, Transition, Blurry

Twitter post from Sep 22, 2011

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I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

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Ideas, World, Way

Twitter post from May 21, 2012

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For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

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Summer, Important, Reason

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.16, Delacorte Press

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I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

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Past, Suffering, Feels

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.51, Penguin

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But it was smell that carried memory.

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Memories, Smell

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.81, Penguin

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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

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Saws, Firsts, First Time

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.182, Penguin

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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.

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Forever, Loses

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.211, Penguin

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I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

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Dying, Without You

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

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At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.

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Over You, Feelings, Comfort

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.207, Penguin

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She wanted him to notice her so much.

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Wanted

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.97, Delacorte Press

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