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Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

Ann Brashares

Hurt, Memories, Sky

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.74, Random House

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There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

Ann Brashares

Strong, Land, Emotion

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.75, Random House

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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.

Ann Brashares

Years, Long, Tangled

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.

Ann Brashares

Long, Separation, Mourn

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

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Independent, Giving, Fundamentals

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.55, Random House

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She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

Ann Brashares

Years, Progress, Three

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.473, Delacorte Press

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No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Ann Brashares

Cutting, Tree, Matter

Twitter post from Jan 02, 2013

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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Ann Brashares

Sister, Writing, People

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.461, Delacorte Press

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you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

Ann Brashares

Remember, Forget, Lost

Twitter post from Nov 28, 2012

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All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Ann Brashares

Way, Certain

Twitter post from Aug 28, 2012

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She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

Ann Brashares

Believe, Eye, Scare

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.208, Penguin

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I like that you let yourself be surprised

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Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.127, Delacorte Press

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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Ann Brashares

People, Age, Shy

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.134, Delacorte Press

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Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Ann Brashares

Relief, Sometimes, Invisible

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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

Ann Brashares

Appreciate, Trying, Gazing

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.44, Delacorte Press

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But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

Ann Brashares

Summer, Needs

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.473, Delacorte Press

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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?

Ann Brashares

Kids, Air, Hands

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.289, Random House

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People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)

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Believe, Mean, Thinking

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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

Ann Brashares

Littles, Made, Irritating

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.876, Delacorte Press

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Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know he loves me, too. But it's different." Alice opened her mouth, but nothing came out at first. "He loved me once. But I think that part is over," she said slowly. "No, it's not. It hasn't even begun." Riley took Alice's bare foot in her hand and squeezed it. "I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first."

Ann Brashares

Thinking, Feet, Hands

"The Last Summer (of You and Me)". Chapter 20: I Loved You First. Book by Ann Brashares, 2007.

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There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Ann Brashares

Funny, Humor, Two

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Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Ann Brashares

Soup, Scared, Carrots

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Wear them, they will make you brave.

Ann Brashares

Brave

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some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

Ann Brashares

Falling In Love, Fall, People

Twitter post from Jan 28, 2010

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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Ann Brashares

Waiting, Relief, Too Much

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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