Ann Brashares citations

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“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”

“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”

“All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.”

“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”