Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 7

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• This body is breaking down, but I am not.

  Ann Brashares

  Body, Breaking Down

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.118, Penguin

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• When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

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  Father, Book, Two

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

  Ann Brashares

  Daughter, Mother, Judging

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• 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.

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  Self, Dieting, Wonder

  Ann Brashares (2009). “3 Willows”, p.147, Delacorte Press

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• The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.

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  Girl, Summer, Moving

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.26, Delacorte Press

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• Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

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  Bridges, People, Fake

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

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  Dying, World, Matter

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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• His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

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  Children, Giving, Married

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.21, Penguin

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• For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

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  Summer, Important, Reason

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.16, Delacorte Press

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• Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

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  Looks, Way, Expected

  Ann Brashares (2009). “3 Willows”, p.249, Delacorte Press

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

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  Memories, Promise, Good Memories

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

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• As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

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  Book, Isolation, Imagine

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• I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

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  Children, Reading, Parent

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

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  Beautiful, Running, Home

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• People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

  Ann Brashares

  Makeup, Hair, Sight

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• The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

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  Ocean, Water, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 05, 2012

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• Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

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  Baby, Character, Losing Yourself

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• You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

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  Feelings, Way, Trouble

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin

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• Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

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  Life Is Too Short, Long, Would Be

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• The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

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  Book, Adults, Sophisticated

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• She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

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  Parent, Doubted

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.910, Delacorte Press

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• My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

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  Nice, Way, Busy

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• It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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  Expectations, Easier, Bigs

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• I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.

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  Knowing, Transition, Blurry

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2011

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