Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 8

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• Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

  Ann Brashares

  Soccer, Stars, School

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press

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• You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

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  Moving, Heart, Blood

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• Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

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  Beautiful, Fragile

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2012

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• The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

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  Haunting, Afar, Way

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• But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

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  Feel Better, Feelings, Miserable

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.347, Delacorte Press

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• When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

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  Possibility

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.947, Delacorte Press

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• Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

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  Baby, Character, Losing Yourself

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• When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

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  Father, Book, Two

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

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  Book, Adults, Sophisticated

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• My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

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  Nice, Way, Busy

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• It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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  Expectations, Easier, Bigs

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• I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

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  Children, Reading, Parent

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

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  Dying, World, Matter

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

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• She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

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  Boys, Bullshit, Different

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.21, Penguin

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• It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

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  Roots, Joy, Putting Yourself Out There

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2013

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• She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

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  Appreciate, Trying, Gazing

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.44, Delacorte Press

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• But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

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  Summer, Needs

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

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• He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

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  Kids, Air, Hands

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.289, Random House

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• People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)

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  Self, People, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.166, Random House

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• The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

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  Phones, Worst Enemy, Enemy

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.403, Delacorte Press

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• Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

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  Hard

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.468, Delacorte Press

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• He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

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  Distance, Taken, Someday

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

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• The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

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  Past, Matter, No Matter What

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2012

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• It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

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  Memories, Blessing, Giving

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

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