Ann Brashares: Trending quotes (page 5)

“She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.”

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you… he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

“I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny”

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

“Luck never gives; it lends.”

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

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

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

“What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?”

“I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.”

“I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.”

“I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“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.”

“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”

“She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to”

“Wear them, they will make you brave.”

“Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved?
-Lena Kaligaris”