You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books. Ann Brashares two father book Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. Ann Brashares losing-yourself baby character Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead. Ann Brashares may trying fall You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried. Ann Brashares heart blood moving She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress? Ann Brashares progress three years Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem. Ann Brashares problem attitude inspirational She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were. Ann Brashares hey different thinking Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something. Ann Brashares writing jobs mean There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. Ann Brashares doubt writing ideas Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. Ann Brashares six-months three grief I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may. Ann Brashares writing ideas fall When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything. Ann Brashares possibility You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it. Ann Brashares ifs remember past Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. Ann Brashares age writing character Love yourself and your friends unconditionally . Ann Brashares love-yourself love-you I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants. Ann Brashares insecurity unique thinking Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. Ann Brashares fleeting age character A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you. Ann Brashares coffee spiritual memories Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better Ann Brashares his-love mad mean Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended. Ann Brashares mourning joy beautiful
