Quotes by Ann Brashares

About Ann Brashares:

Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.
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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her ...

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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

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

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Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

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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.

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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

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The path of your life can change in an instant.

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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

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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.

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But it was smell that carried memory.

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My memory is good for some things and not others.

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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

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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

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It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and the...

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

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There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..

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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

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Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnn Brashares
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornJuly 30, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist