Ann Brashares Quotes

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Everything good requires sacrifices.

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

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

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.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes

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

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.