she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. Ann Brashares agony leaving memories Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor. Ann Brashares dirt cold forget Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair. Ann Brashares despair demand long She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t. Ann Brashares happened things-in-life imagine You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things Ann Brashares surround-yourself pain trying She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination. Ann Brashares frustration imagination feelings The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way. Ann Brashares haunting afar way But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable. Ann Brashares miserable feel-better feelings Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them. Ann Brashares carrots scared soup There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. Ann Brashares humor funny two Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you. Ann Brashares grumpy tired fun How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget? Ann Brashares ifs reflection forget I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. Ann Brashares suffering feels past Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile Ann Brashares fragile beautiful Wear them, they will make you brave. Ann Brashares brave Tibby was shaking her head. "What?" Bailey asked. "Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised. Ann Brashares shaking said She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. Ann Brashares doubted parent some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once. Ann Brashares falling-in-love people fall We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere. Ann Brashares house school thinking Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it. Ann Brashares life-is-too-short would-be long
