Quotes from Ann Brashares

Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice that I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want

Elle errait le coeur brisé, sans savoir qui le lui avait brisé. Elle avait dû se le briser toute seule, conclut-elle.

She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.

The world was full of death, full of sadness, full of people, full of people too broken to lean on.

There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was always someone else you could call, some other question you could ask, something else you could buy. You could put every worry, every desire, every whim, every moment of your waking day into a wedding, and it was big enough to absorb them all.

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?" "Ready." " 'At least I tried.

Bridget loved the Marly who glittered and preened, but this was the woman she remembered. That was how the story went. That was how it really ended.

It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.

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.

It was a strange thing about college. You felt like you were supposed to be finding your life there. Each person you saw, you thought, Will you mean something to me? Will we figure into each other's lives?

But now he held her. He forgot to worry as much about waking her up. She turned her body to his, eyes closed, and curled herself around him. She pressed her cheek to her chest, and he felt the tickle of her hair in his neck and under his nose. Trust and love went together.

I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.

Iban a sumirla en la tristeza antes de hacerla feliz? No, por favor.

Toda su vida desde que Bailey había muerto le parecía de pronto como el vagabundeo lejano de un amnésico, lleno de confusión y olvido.

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.

She and Effie were already putting on their turtle-and-hare show. Everyone paid lots of attention to Lena at first, because she was striking to look at, but within a few hours or days, they always fully committed their attentions to exuberant, affectionate Effie. Lena felt Effie deserved it. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     ââ'¬â€George Eliot

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place.

Girls who wouldn't take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget

Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a beauty! Lena seriously wished she would stop saying that, because it was irritating, and besides, how was cranky Effie supposed to feel?

What business had she to try to capture life and light?

Når man har et prosjekt, er det mye enklere å late som om man er en annen. Man kunne late som om man var Nancy Drew, for eksempel, eller Maria i Sound of Music, eller den forstandige og rappkjefta husholdersken i The Brady Bunch.

It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.