Quotes from Ann Brashares

You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this... Ready? At least I tried.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up? Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only by my efforts that they kept going. If I gave up it would all dissolve into the raw chaos of the senses. That's all we really have. The rest is romanticism and storytelling. But we need those stories. I guess I do.

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

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

There was a satisfaction in being right and a terror in finding so much evidence that the world didn't work the way you or most other people thought it did.

I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

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.

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

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

You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way :)

I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.

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.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

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

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?