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”

“No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.”

“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”

“There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.”

“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”

“Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.”

“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”

“Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.”

“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

“Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.
-Annik Marchand”

“But like everything else, love changed.”

“she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.”

“Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson”

“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”

“Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.”

“Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself…. As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.”