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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?

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Years, Progress, Three

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

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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.

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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.

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Soup, Scared, Carrots

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Wear them, they will make you brave.

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Brave

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

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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.

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Waiting, Relief, Too Much

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

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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?

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Appreciate, Trying, Gazing

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

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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

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Kids, Dark, Lunch

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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.

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Sister, Writing, People

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

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During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

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Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.

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Heart, Oh Well, Wells

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.983, Delacorte Press

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I love you, I'll never stop.

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Love You

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.452, Delacorte Press

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She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

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Love, Pieces, Wanted

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.9, Penguin

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she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

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Crush, Girly, Weakness

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.33, Penguin

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She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

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People, Lost Everything, Bees

Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.158, 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."

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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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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.

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Littles, Made, Irritating

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

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

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Cutting, Tree, Matter

Twitter post from Jan 02, 2013

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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Relief, Sometimes, Invisible

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

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Summer, Needs

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

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