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Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.

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Sadness, Comfort, Faces

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.18, Penguin

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Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

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Beautiful, Mourning, Joy

Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

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Thinking, Different, Hey

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Last Summer (of You & Me)”, p.157, Hachette UK

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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

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Book, Funny Things, Feet

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.90, Penguin

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I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.

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Fall, Writing, Ideas

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from May 21, 2013

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Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

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Father, People, Cases

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.20, Penguin

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It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

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Mother, Long Ago, Jeans

Ann Brashares (2003). “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood”, p.373, Delacorte Press

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When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.

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Possibility

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.947, Delacorte Press

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

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Peace, Sex, Weapons

Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

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Beautiful, People, Beautiful People

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.22, Delacorte Press

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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

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Spiritual, Memories, Coffee

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Sep 26, 2011

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It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

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Memories, Blessing, Giving

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

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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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Giving, Aspect

Twitter post from Aug 23, 2012

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

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Sadness, Easier

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.124, Random House

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How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

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Expression, Waiting, Serious

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

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Great Love, Skins, Joints

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.102, Penguin

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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

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Space, Looks, Arches

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.82, Penguin

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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

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Dream, People, Done

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.293, Random House

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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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Mother, Annoyed, Said

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.

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Real, Long Ago, World

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.224, Random House

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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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Forgotten

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.38, Random House

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You should find him because he loves you.

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Love You, Should

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.36, Penguin

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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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Mistake, Sacrifice, Asking

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.282, Random House

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She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

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Smell, Bags, Tonight

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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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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Strong, Trying, Have Faith

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.234, Random House

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