Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes Ann Brashares hilarious humor funny I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. Ann Brashares mistake time mean He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. Ann Brashares oldest-friends stranger All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass. Ann Brashares feels looks way Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. Ann Brashares how-you-feel happens feels She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing. Ann Brashares bigs alive trying But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so. Ann Brashares powerful soul two Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little. Ann Brashares knowing half world There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look. Ann Brashares forget looks Let me love you, but don't 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. Ann Brashares let-me hate love-you You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276 Ann Brashares want advice beautiful Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get. Ann Brashares leavers precious-gifts people 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 scare eye believe Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock. Ann Brashares views heart two Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out. Ann Brashares know-how running love You forget your victories, but you remember the losses. Ann Brashares victory loss remember Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product. Ann Brashares messy uncertain products I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you. Ann Brashares dying soul together If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance. Ann Brashares girl choices world He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore. Ann Brashares fighting skills memories