Tibby's Quotes

#1. Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

Ann Brashares

#2. They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

Ann Brashares

#3. Love isn't static. If it's big enough, it changes to accommodate the good and the bad.

Tibby Armstrong

#4. Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

John Keats

#5. The after-school specials of my youth seemed to be dedicated to exploring just these ideas. They brought us the mean boy who really just wanted to be included and the know-it-all girl who was showing off at school to hide her misery over her parents' recent divorce.

Brene Brown

#6. She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.

Ann Brashares

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

Ann Brashares

#8. She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Virgil

#9. Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Homer

#10. If your prospect like your product, they'll tell 10 people. If they don't, they'll tell 1,000.

Timi Nadela

#11. I don't care if you wear white to your coming-out party and pretend to be a virgin, but you're gay, Kit. G-A-Y. Gay! So gay, fairies everywhere will weep that your machismo avoided their gaydar for so long.

Tibby Armstrong

#12. I just wanted ... "
Aaron stepped closer.
"To kiss you good-bye," he finished for Greg.

Tibby Armstrong

#13. The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got no breasts) at the Rockwood public swimming pool.

Ann Brashares

#14. She looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.

Ann Brashares

#15. Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

#16. Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared ... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Ann Brashares

#17. Tibby, you are crazy," Carmen said. "Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind." She couldn't help seeing the pants in a completely new way.

Ann Brashares

#18. Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

Ann Brashares

#19. Tibby was shaking her head.
"What?" Bailey asked.
"Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said.
Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised.

Ann Brashares

#20. Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Ann Brashares

#21. If being queer meant loving Aaron, then he'd own the label, at least internally.

Tibby Armstrong

#22. In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

Charity Shea

#23. 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.

Ann Brashares

#24. The way the word sinks
into the deep snow of the page

Gregory Orr

#25. Bouncing is for balls.

-Tibby Rollins

Ann Brashares

#26. You just have to let people love you in the way they can

Ann Brashares

#27. 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.

Ann Brashares