Ann Brashares: Trending quotes (page 6)

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

“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.”

“It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”

“But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.”

“You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.”

“He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.”

“Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.”

“She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.”

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

“It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.”

“Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.”

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

“when life gives you lemons, say, "yeah I like lemons, what else ya got"?”

“The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

“You should find him because he loves you.”

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”

“Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.”

“There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.”

“And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants.

Pants = Love”