Quotes from Ann Brashares

She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.

You have been my friend,"                  replied Charlotte. "That in itself                  is a tremendous thing."        Ã¢â'¬â€E. B. White

Clearly this wasn't the kind of household where they ate steak every night. And so Tibby chewed the meat with as much vigor as was possible for a girl who had been a vegetarian since she was nine.

She was already lost - she couldn't really get more lost, could she? When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere

You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this.… Ready?" "Ready." " Ã¢â'¬ËœAt least I tried.' Ã¢â'¬Â Lena

She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

She wanted his profession of feelings to do the trick. She really did. She knew he wanted that too. Whether he spoke the truth or not, he thought he could make her feel better, and he really, really wanted to. But it wasn't what she needed. Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

She needed to know someone was looking out for her. She needed someone to promise her that the world wasn't empty

He was a caricature of a caricature of a loser.

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove. Did you know that?

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

Tragedy brought some families together maybe, but not hers... Maybe if she'd tried hard enough she could have kept them feeling like a family and kept her home feeling like a home. Instead, they seemed to float out from under the roof, off into the stratosphere, farther and farther apart, orbiting nothing.

Each time her mind flashed on that image for a second, a fraction of a second, it blinded her like a flashbulb, burning out the center of her mind's eye to blackness.

Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?" her mom asked very softly. "Why is that?" "Because you trust that they'll love you anyway.

To honor the Pants and the Sisterhood And this moment and this summer and the rest of our lives Together and apart.

It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.

loving a person was all you could do.

If I could meet you again, at a different time under different circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve.

If I could meet you again, at a different time under different circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve. But I can't now.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. —Stanislaw J. Lec

But why would you wanna break                       a perfectly good heart?               ââ'¬â€Taylor Swift

That seemed a sad thing about human nature - how much more time we spend thinking about what we don' have, or have lost, than about what we have.

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.

The conversation flowed and stopped and started as it would, a third thing in the room, not quite controlled by either of them, but mostly benevolent.