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Ann Brashares Quotes | Quotes said by Ann Brashares

  • Ann Brashares Quote #1

    ...he had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to give it. Lena prayed on these two moons that she would find that same courage.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #2

    A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #3

    A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #4

    Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #5

    Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #6

    Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #7

    But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #8

    But it was smell that carried memory.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #9

    Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn’t want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #10

    Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #11

    Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #12

    Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #13

    He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #14

    He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #15

    He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #16

    Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #17

    Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #18

    Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #19

    Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #20

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

  • Ann Brashares Quote #21

    Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #22

    How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

  • Ann Brashares Quote #23

    How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #24

    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.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #25

    I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #26

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

  • Ann Brashares Quote #27

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

  • Ann Brashares Quote #28

    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. (Riley to her sister Alice about Paul)

  • Ann Brashares Quote #29

    I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

  • Ann Brashares Quote #30

    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.

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