Quotes from Ann Brashares

You should find him because he loves you.

All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

But like everything else, love changed.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

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.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

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.

Luck never gives; it lends.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Healing wasnt always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to