Ann Brashares Quotes about Giving

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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Ann Brashares

Children, Giving, Married

Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.21, Penguin

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Ann Brashares

Independent, Giving, Fundamentals

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.55, Random House

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Ann Brashares

Fighting, Giving, Giving In

Luck never gives; it lends.

Ann Brashares

Giving, Luck

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

Ann Brashares

Giving Up, Giving

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.14, Penguin

It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.

Ann Brashares

Memories, Blessing, Giving

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.206, Random House

It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)

Ann Brashares

Self, People, Giving

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.166, Random House