Ann Brashares citations

“Elle errait le coeur brisé, sans savoir qui le lui avait brisé. Elle avait dû se le briser toute seule, conclut-elle.”

“Pourquoi toutes les mères étaient-elles si impatientes que leurs filles aient un petit ami? Comme si la vraie vie ne commençait qu'avec les garçons.”

“Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce ni la faiblesse ni la souffrance ni même la peur. Peut-être est-ce simplement l'amour”

“She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”

“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

“I killed her once and died for her many times”

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

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

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

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

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.”

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

“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”

“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.”

“Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.”

“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.”

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

“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”

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

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

“Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.”

“I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.”

“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?”