It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse. Ann Brashares no-excuses realizing three Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over. Ann Brashares mourn separation long Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. Ann Brashares easier sadness I killed her once and died for her many times Ann Brashares died Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit. Ann Brashares size fit rooms You just have to let people love you in the way they can Ann Brashares love-you people way It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give. Ann Brashares blessing giving memories But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need. Ann Brashares summer needs He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not? Ann Brashares air kids hands The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed. Ann Brashares no-matter-what matter past I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them. Ann Brashares stronger faces thinking Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care. Ann Brashares hated care People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211) Ann Brashares mean believe thinking Everything I ever said to you was true and is true. Ann Brashares said It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194) Ann Brashares self giving people The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it. Ann Brashares worst-enemy phones enemy Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard. Ann Brashares hard He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore. Ann Brashares someday distance taken There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't. Ann Brashares slides pieces parent Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. Ann Brashares original-sin sin knows
