Quotes from Ann Brashares

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

I love that blurry place where life's transitions are made without you even knowing it.

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

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.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

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.

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

If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.

I love you, I'll never stop.

Love yourself and your friends unconditionally .

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

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

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

But then she hadn't just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.