Ann Brashares Quotes

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.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

I killed her once and died for her many times

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

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.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

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.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

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.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

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

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

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 wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

My memory is good for some things and not others.

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.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

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.

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

I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

sometimes you need to make a mess.