Ann Brashares: Trending quotes (page 2)

“What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.”

“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”

“She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”

“you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.”

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

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

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

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

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.”

“Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?”

“It was wrong. But it was worth it.”

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.”

“He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”

“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.”

“You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ”
“Ready.”
“At least I tried.”

“She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”