Quotes from Ann Brashares

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

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

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

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

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.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

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 distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

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.

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

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

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

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

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.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

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.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

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

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

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

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.

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