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Live, laugh, love.
When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell — Ann Brashares

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You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds 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. — Ann Brashares

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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it. — Ann Brashares

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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

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They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you.
-Effie Kaligaris — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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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

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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. — Ann Brashares

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It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she'd scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their grand finale of the summer. Now she looked at him contentedly munching on his Rice Krispies, waiting for the right juncture for launchtime.

He looked up at her briefly and smiled, and she realized something important. This was how they both liked it. Though most people felt bonded by conversation, Lena and Bapi were two of a kind who didn't. They bonded by the routine of just eating cereal together.

She promptly forgot her script and went back to her cereal.

At one point, when she was down to just milk, Bapi reached over and put his hand on hers. 'You're my girl,' he said.

And Lena knew she was. — Ann Brashares

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I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the birth of the first distinct soul. And much happiness ensued. — Ann Brashares

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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time — Ann Brashares

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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

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Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. — Ann Brashares

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Could she kiss him? Would he allow her that? Was that something he could pretend was nothing? What about making love? Could she just open up her legs and pull him inside her and have him all she wanted and later give her assent that it was nothing? — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. — Ann Brashares

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Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false. — Ann Brashares

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But it was smell that carried memory. — Ann Brashares

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You remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you. — Ann Brashares

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Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought. — Ann Brashares

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At least I tried. — Ann Brashares

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There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well. — Ann Brashares

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God often gives nuts to toothless people. - Matt Groening — Ann Brashares

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D it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way up to her face. [Lena] — Ann Brashares

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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone. — Ann Brashares

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He could take happiness from her, but could he give any? — Ann Brashares

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So often this summer I keep thinking: I know I'm holding back. I know I'm waiting. I know I'm afraid to go forward. But I don't know how to get there from here."
He was quiet, so she kept going. "Sometimes I see it as a tricky mountain pass between two valleys. Other times, it's like perilous straits connecting two lands. Partly it's the fear of the trip itself, I think, but partly it's the fear that I won't be able to get back. I'll turn around and the clouds will have settled over the mountaintop. Or the waters will have risen and shifted, and there will be no way home."
Paul nodded. He took her hand again, which she discovered she appreciated.
But that's not even the real fear."
He gave her an odd smile. Short on mirth but affectionate. "What's the real fear?"
The real fear is that I won't want to go home. — Ann Brashares

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You just have to let people love you in the way they can — Ann Brashares

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She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky. — Ann Brashares

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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

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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. — Ann Brashares

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I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself. — Ann Brashares

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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace. — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age. — Ann Brashares

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She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day. — Ann Brashares

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I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved - the two go together. — Ann Brashares

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When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere. — Ann Brashares

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But like everything else, love changed. — Ann Brashares

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Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over. — Ann Brashares

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Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten. — Ann Brashares

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There are some people who fall in love over and over. — Ann Brashares

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When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.
It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood, in the back of her mouth. It grew down into her stomach, where it knotted her intestines. It made her arms stiffen and her shoulders lock. It pushed against her ribs until she felt they would snap like sticks. — Ann Brashares

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

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Patrick: I'm mad. SpongeBob: What's the matter, Patrick? Patrick: I can't see my forehead. — Ann Brashares

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One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made. — Ann Brashares

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Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper — Ann Brashares

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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived. — Ann Brashares

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Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do was hold on to them after they forgot themselves. — Ann Brashares

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Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren. — Ann Brashares

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My household is, in a nice way, very busy. — Ann Brashares

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He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not? — Ann Brashares

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The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford. — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see it anymore. — Ann Brashares

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Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around. — Ann Brashares

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She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one. — Ann Brashares

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It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience. — Ann Brashares

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Lena was suspicious of many things. But she had earned her suspicions about boys. Lena knew boys. They never looked beyond your looks. They pretended to be your friend to get you to trust them, and as soon as you trusted them, they went in for the grope. They pretended to want to work on a history project or volunteer on your blood drive committee to get your attention. But as soon as they got it through their skulls that you didn't want to go out with them, they suddenly weren't interested in time lines or dire blood shortages. Worst of all, on occasion they even went out with one of your best friends to get close to you, and broke that same best friend's heart when the truth came out. Lean preferred plain guys to cute ones, but even the plain ones disappointed her. — Ann Brashares

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She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and clear everything away. Rain never came when you asked for it. — Ann Brashares

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Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious — Ann Brashares

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

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There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain. — Ann Brashares

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It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything. — Ann Brashares

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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

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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares

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I told him 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. — Ann Brashares

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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. — Ann Brashares

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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. — Ann Brashares

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They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she. — Ann Brashares

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He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did. — Ann Brashares

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It's wrong, I know, but I play out this dance with him, exquisite and slow. I play it out in my head, because that is the only place it will ever happen. — Ann Brashares

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Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all? — Ann Brashares

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When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back. — Ann Brashares

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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares

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

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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. — Ann Brashares

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Do you have any idea how much I've loved you? — Ann Brashares

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It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn't obsessively reread what you'd written after you'd sent it. You couldn't attempt to un-send it. Once you'd sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you'd said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give. — Ann Brashares

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It wasn't meant to work with them, was it? He didn't know if he could try anymore. — Ann Brashares

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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books. — Ann Brashares

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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. — Ann Brashares

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

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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

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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

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I've always feared she would find completion without me, and I'd be around, stupid and unperfected, forever. — Ann Brashares

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[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better. — Ann Brashares

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He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore. — Ann Brashares

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She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at. — Ann Brashares

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Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy. — Ann Brashares

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As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started. — Ann Brashares

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She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing. — Ann Brashares

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

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She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it. — Ann Brashares

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Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing. — Ann Brashares

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What is it we recognize? The soul is a mysterious thing. It's no less mysterious for me, though I've seen my own and others' refracted through hundreds of bodies over time. — Ann Brashares

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

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You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you. — Ann Brashares