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Sisterhood Everlasting

Ann Brashares

Sisterhood Everlasting is the fifth and last novel in Ann Brashares's "Sisterhood" series. The story concludes the adventures of four girls who share a pair of "magical" pants that fit each one of them perfectly, despite their vastly different shapes and sizes. This is the fifth book in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”

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

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“You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ”
“Ready.”
“At least I tried.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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Gwendolen, Act III
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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“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.”

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“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

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“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.”

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“But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.”

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“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”

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“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.”

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