Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 11

She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

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

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 mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.

But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

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

Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

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.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

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