Top 100 Ann Brashares Quotes
#1. It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.
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#2. There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.
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#3. Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.
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#4. What's the occasion?" she asked.
He kissed her ear. "I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride."
She laughed. "You have that every night."
"That's why I want to celebrate.
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#5. I don't want to be the only good thing in the world.
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#6. Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false.
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#7. 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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#8. He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.
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#9. If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.
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#10. I'm afraid of not having enough time," she clarified. "Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.
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#11. They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
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#12. Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
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#13. 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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#14. He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. 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 where it went anymore.
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#15. Carmen: I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.
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#16. I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved - the two go together.
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#17. I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.
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#18. 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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#19. Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
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#20. She couldn't hide from everyone for the rest of her life ... Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
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#21. The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn't see it.
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#22. Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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#24. Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
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#25. She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't.
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#26. 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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#27. People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
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#28. I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
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#30. But it was hard to give the real world much notice when he was this close.
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#32. How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn't forget?
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#33. When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back.
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#34. 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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#35. Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.
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#36. All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
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#37. I love that blurry place where life's transitions are made without you even knowing it.
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#38. I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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#39. It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.
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#40. Patrick: I'm mad. SpongeBob: What's the matter, Patrick? Patrick: I can't see my forehead.
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#41. I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the birth of the first distinct soul. And much happiness ensued.
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#42. She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.
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#43. 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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#44. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.
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#45. Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.
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#46. Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
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#47. Each of these moments was a pearl on a string, one prettier and more perfect than the next.
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#49. He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
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#50. To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
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#51. Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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#52. Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
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#53. Yeah. You know what I think?"
What?"
So intense was Tibby, she had practically shoved the phone into her ear cavity.
She has big boobies.
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#54. 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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#55. Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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#56. One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
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#57. I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.
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#59. His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.
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#61. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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#63. 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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#64. I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
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#65. But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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#66. You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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#67. She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and clear everything away. Rain never came when you asked for it.
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#68. Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
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#69. But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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#70. When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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#71. 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. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)
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#72. But we were in the same place at the same time in our lives, and for that alone I was inexpressibly buoyant and a few hundred years' worth of grateful.
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#73. No one really believes in the future, do they? It's like believing in your own death. You can't do it.
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#74. My memory is good for some things and not others.
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#75. You couldn't count on Providence for anything ever.
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#76. No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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#77. He is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.
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#78. It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
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#79. She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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#80. You don't mean it," he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. "Yes, I do," she said.
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#81. How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?"
Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
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#82. You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way
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#83. Girls who wouldn't take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget
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#84. She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
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#85. Live, laugh, love.
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
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#86. Sometimes you couldn't face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
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#87. He was a caricature of a caricature of a loser.
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#88. Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.
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#90. I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.
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#91. 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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#92. He could take happiness from her, but could he give any?
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#93. Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
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#94. Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.
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#95. There are some people who fall in love over and over.
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#96. Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.
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#97. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
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#98. When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
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#99. 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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#100. Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?
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