Quotes from Ann Brashares

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.

The present no matter what I brought couldn't change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

You should find him because he loves you.

And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

when life gives you lemons, say, yeah I like lemons, what else ya got?

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

I killed her once and died for her many times

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

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

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

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

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

But like everything else, love changed.