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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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Ann Brashares

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

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Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

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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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She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

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When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

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When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

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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

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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

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How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament...

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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

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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.

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When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back.

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She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on ...

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

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