Quotes by Ann Brashares

“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.”

“When you feel someone elses pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasnt her parents and it wasnt her friends: It was her own. ”

“You know what the secret is? Its so simple. We love one another. Were nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen”

“Let me love you, but dont love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ”

“Love who you love while you have them. Thats all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, youll never run out.”

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

“Maybe the truth is, theres a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isnt having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe its about stringing together all the little things.”

“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didnt. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didnt. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldnt stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”

“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”