Ann Brashares Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever.
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.
You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.
Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.
She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)
She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this.
I felt like a pianist who'd been forced to play on a few white keys in the middle, finally allowed to run his hands all up and down the keyboard.
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.
Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There
could be joy in things that ended.
could be joy in things that ended.
A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false.
Live, laugh, love.
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
The gap between what we say and what we feel is so big and dark that sometimes I think I'll fall into it and just keep falling
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.
Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?
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.
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.
Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time