Ann Brashares Quotes
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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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Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
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She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
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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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You just have to let people love you in the way they can
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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
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Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.
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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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He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.
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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.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
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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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It was wrong. But it was worth it.
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
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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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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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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
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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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He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
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I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
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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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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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She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
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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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We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
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