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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

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Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name Is Memory”, p.223, Hachette UK

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How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

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Relieved, Disappointed, Persons

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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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Want, Flip, Sometimes

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 02, 2013

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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

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People, Precious Gifts, Leavers

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.221, Random House

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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

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Girl, Wise, Thinking

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.227, Random House

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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

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Long, Despair, Demand

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 12, 2012

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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.

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Soul, Dying, Together

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.127, Penguin

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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

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Self, Survival, Together

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.58, Random House

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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

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Law, Agony, Way

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

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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

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Real, Size, Delusion

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.163, Penguin

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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

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Waiting, Be Good, Stills

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

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You just have to let people love you in the way they can

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Love You, People, Way

FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 31, 2012

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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

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Beautiful, Advice, Want

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.236, Random House

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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.

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Uncertain, Messy, Products

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

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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

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Broken Heart, Past, Empty

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.84, Random House

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Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

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Self, Years, People

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.119, Random House

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She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

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Wish, Unhappy, Made

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.133, Random House

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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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Beautiful, Cities, Water

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She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

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Boys, Bullshit, Different

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.21, Penguin

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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

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Ideas

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.20, Penguin

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I killed her once and died for her many times

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Died

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.10, Penguin

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He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

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Memories, Fighting, Skills

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.210, Penguin

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He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over. But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could.

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Sorry, Brain, Comfort

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.68, Random House

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If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

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Girl, Choices, World

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For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

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Names, Nurse, Saws

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.111, Random House

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