You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. Ann Brashares More Quotes by Ann Brashares More Quotes From Ann Brashares Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice. He knows I know that. I know he loves me, too. But it's different." Alice opened her mouth, but nothing came out at first. "He loved me once. But I think that part is over," she said slowly. "No, it's not. It hasn't even begun." Riley took Alice's bare foot in her hand and squeezed it. "I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first." Ann Brashares feet hands thinking Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what. Ann Brashares mad love-you people She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not. Ann Brashares lost-everything bees people Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross. Ann Brashares fake bridges people The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose. Ann Brashares girl summer moving Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose. Ann Brashares dieting self wonder Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter) Ann Brashares daughter judging mother People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was. Ann Brashares makeup sight hair Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both. Ann Brashares love water blood All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see? Ann Brashares certain way I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on. Ann Brashares different would-be hair What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything? Ann Brashares recycled what-if people It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything. Ann Brashares practice two needs you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you. Ann Brashares lost forget remember The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it. Ann Brashares getting-what-you-want want worry I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her ; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me. Ann Brashares someday shows remember Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach. Ann Brashares progress beach thinking It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss. Ann Brashares enough missing world Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again. Ann Brashares doubt wish ideas It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal. Ann Brashares cereal example life
