Quotes by Ann Brashares

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasnt sure whod broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

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.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

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.

She hadnt chosen the brave life. Shed chosen the small, fearful one.

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

I dont have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like Ive been able to connect with a lot of people.

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

“Im afraid of time... I mean, Im afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. Im afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You cant fix them without time. Im afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”

“You dont have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you dont have what you want now, you dont have what you want.”

“How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.”

“It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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