Ann Brashares Quotes
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
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
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.
Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
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.
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.