Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting Quotes
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.
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
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.
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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.
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.
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.
she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.
This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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.
I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.