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. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly. Ann Brashares honestly mother world He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't. Ann Brashares care chance Do you have any idea how much I've loved you? Ann Brashares ideas A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground. Ann Brashares growing tree beautiful She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew. Ann Brashares sadness Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory. Ann Brashares keys sometimes memories She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it. Ann Brashares grenade supposed-to-be together Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other. Ann Brashares would-be people way This body is breaking down, but I am not. Ann Brashares breaking-down body Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid. Ann Brashares not-afraid pain All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do. Ann Brashares persons can-do thinking You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin. Ann Brashares joints great-love skins He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is. Ann Brashares arches space looks She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her. Ann Brashares I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her. Ann Brashares saws first-time firsts I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people. Ann Brashares able feels people Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for. Ann Brashares dying matter world For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened Ann Brashares important reason summer I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way. Ann Brashares way world ideas I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it. Ann Brashares blurry transition knowing
