As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares 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. Ann Brashares done dream people How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear. Ann Brashares serious expression waiting She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back. Ann Brashares long-ago soul missing Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. Ann Brashares cities beautiful water What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them. Ann Brashares behinds people She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy. Ann Brashares unhappy made wish Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. Ann Brashares self people years She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known. Ann Brashares bullshit different boys You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. Ann Brashares thread memories firsts Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that. Ann Brashares pieces healing life Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. Ann Brashares happenings Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother Ann Brashares grandmother wish needs You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful. Ann Brashares careful turns ordinary There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain. Ann Brashares quality caring gone One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made. Ann Brashares good-memories memories promise There are some people who fall in love over and over. Ann Brashares falling-in-love people fall Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to. Ann Brashares expected looks way No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die. Ann Brashares cutting matter tree Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper Ann Brashares mess sometimes needs If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress. Ann Brashares falling-in-love guy feelings
