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Ann Brashares
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#42085
The most frustrating thing about love stories is that you can't write them on your own.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42086
I'm afraid I don't have enough time, not enough time to understand people, to know what they really are, and that they also understand me. I'm afraid of hasty judgments, of those mistakes that everyone commits. It takes time to fix them. I'm afraid I'll see only scattered images and not the whole movie.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42087
Difficulties make you stronger, but obviously not happier.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42088
It was because she was so beautiful that he loved her. And that was also why he hated her. He liked that she was lip-syncing and he despised her for the same reason. He wanted her to go home. He wanted to run after her to catch her and hug her. "Let me love you but don't love me in return. Love me and let me hate you sometimes. Let me have the illusion of controlling things, because I know that everything escapes me."

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42091
Let me love you, but don't love me in return. Love me and let me hate you sometimes. Let me have the illusion of controlling things, because I know that everything escapes me.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42092
"Alice?" She smiles at him. "Yes?" He wanted to look her in the eye. "I have something to tell you. "Yes?" She had an angel patient. "I love you. As it was good to say at last, for millions of times when he had felt it. She smiled again. "I know. "Well," he said, good night. He went back to the couch and maybe went to bed and could get to sleep now.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42099
It was a good old jeans, happy to do his job: that is to say cover the buttocks of the one who wore it without making a pudding.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42100
It's up to you to put magic into your life.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42101
Your actions speak so loudly that I do not hear what you say.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42102
When he thought about it it was what he was most ashamed of in his life: all the times he had been mean to her, on purpose, voluntarily. And there were so many. Proof that he was not a good person. He was angry at her for a lot of reasons, when in reality he was blaming her for only one thing: for taking her heart from her and refusing to give it back to her. She didn't deserve it. She deserved better.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42103
We always think we have a choice between going ahead or standing still, but that's not true. As long as the heart beats, the blood flows through the veins, the air fills the lungs, we move forward.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42104
As a principle. I don't have one.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42105
"It's extremely disturbing to complain about someone you admire. And it's even more disturbing to know that this person doesn't realize they're complaining."

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42106
"The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you respond to this problem. Got it? (Molly Brevin, coach)"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42107
"You love your memories, but it is your friend that you must love. You remember what's lost, and you forget what's in front of you. -If I forget, who will remember? He inquired with an irrepressible melancholy. That will no longer exist.

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42110
We built rockets and cathedrals. We have composed poems and symphonies. We found a way to travel back in time. And yet. We have trashed the planet to meet our needs [...]

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42111
We forget about victories, but never defeats.

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42112
That's what's sad about human nature: we tend to focus on what we don't have rather than what we have.

Ann Brashares
(The bonds that separate us)


#42113
Even with a broken heart, we tend to life. We are moving towards hope.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42114
One day, when you're 20, maybe we'll see each other again. You'll be a football superstar at a great university, with millions of guys far more interesting than me who will turn you around. And you know what? I'll pray you want me again.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42115
You are with me, Lucy, in all my thoughts, all my projects, my pleasures, my wanderings, my successes and my sorrows. What I see, I see with your eyes too, and with you I am more determined and better than I could ever be without you. I know that this letter does not contain any real information, and I apologize for that. You can always hit me for it later. But I realize that I have written you a kind of prayer. I pray that without having received it (the letter I wrote to you last night or the letter I will write to you tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow and after tomorrow) you will know what it contains: that I am well and above all that I am with you wherever I am, that there is no strength on this earth or length of time capable of separating us. I'll be back. My love for you is more sincere than anything I have known in my very, very long life. Love is very demanding, it seems, but mine asks for only one thing: whatever events and time it takes, you will keep your trust in me, you will remember who we are and you will never lose hope. To you, forever, Daniel.

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42116
"- There is no place for me in your new life. You have a new family, new children... m-but and me? That's it, she was launched at full speed, carried away by emotions that she had never wanted to admit. - What do you do with me and Mom? His voice broke. Tears began to roll over his cheeks. She didn't care if he was still listening, she couldn't stop now. - Your old family wasn't good enough for you, was it? Why did you leave? yet you promised me that... that we would always be so close... She paused to try to catch her breath -P-why you said it was always the way it was then... when it wasn't true? She was hiccuping. His words languished on streams of tears. She didn't even know if he still understood what she was saying. - You see, even Paul visits his drunken father all me while you, you come to see me only two or three times a year. I didn't do anything wrong, though, did I? She was silent and stood on the phone crying, losing the notion of time. After a while, she finally calms down. Was he always on the other end of the line? Pressing the handset against her ear, she heard a muffled noise. Breathing breathing. Interspersed with sobs. - Carmen, I ask for your forgiveness. Excuse me.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42119
Lena would have liked to have had a switch to control other people's feelings. So she could have turned it on when she felt open and generous enough and disposed to give them love in return. And turn it off on other days, when she wanted to hide in a corner, all alone, and she had nothing to offer to others.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42120
He would have given anything to stop loving him. The old tricks didn't work anymore. In fact, they had never worked. How did you cease to love someone? Was it one of the most intractable puzzles there is? The more stubborn we were, the less it worked. The song was followed by a slow. Instead of going away, which would have been smarter, he drew him to him. He felt her smell and clung to her, hating her, hating himself. Now he had to endure the torture of guessing his body under his dress. He put a hand in the hollow of his kidneys and squeezed, louder than he should. He was pîtoyably hungry for her. What for? What was so special about her?

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42121
"Grief is like a newborn, the first three months, it's hell and, after six months, you finally admit defeat, you reorganize your life according to it, you make room for it."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42128
"It's not always easy to feel the right emotions at the right time. In general, they refuse to go up when we are ready to welcome them."

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42133
Then came the remarriages, the two new babies born the same month, happiness on both sides of the family. A long bitter silence settled between their parents. The war was always raging, quietly, with little twisted blows.

Ann Brashares
(The bonds that separate us)


#42134
"In case of great drama, it was better to avoid small traumas, like crossing his gaze in the mirror by brushing his teeth, knowing what we knew."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42135
Happiness, perhaps it was not a perfect life in every detail, love, glory, beauty and all the tralala. It was perhaps just a succession of small pleasures. Watching the Miss Universe election warm under the duvet. Eat a brownie dripping with vanilla ice cream. Reach level seven of Dragon Master, knowing that there are still twenty to discover... Happiness may have been due to the balance of small joys (such as arriving at the pedestrian crossing just when the man goes green) and the small inconveniences of life (such as having a label that scratches in the neck).

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42136
"Did you hear?" "No, what? He really had fine hearing. - It sounded like a cell phone ringing. Your cell phone. She pulled her head out the window. Yes, indeed, it was his ringtone. - I knew he was downstairs. Thanks to his very thin hearing, Eric tracked the phone into the yard and discovered it in a large black bag. His laughter went up to their apartment. "For God's sake, Bee! So I called the trash all day?

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42137
There are people who keep falling in love. And others seem to be only able to do it once.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans, Tome 4: The Last Summer)


#42138
"Lena could convince herself of just about anything, and she had almost convinced herself that she could be herself without her friends."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42139
Do you believe that our past can become our future in such a short time?"

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42142
What a poor memory that draws only from the past. (Lewis Carroll)

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42143
Friendship does not withstand time. This is not a revelation. My mother once told me that a good family is the one that we leave easily, because that is the goal of the children: to go and live their lives. I have often wondered if it is the same for friendship. Because between us, it's not that at all. We don't know how to leave each other. And I'm even worse than the others. I stand there, hiding my eyes so as not to see the others who are leaving, waiting for us to be reunited again.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42144
You have something that I have often missed. Faith. Not necessarily in God, no, but in a better day. You are the light, the hope, Bee. Even if you fall very low, you will still have it in you, this thing that makes you different from your mother. It is quite natural not to take the measure of the things that are part of our daily lives and to sacrifice them without thinking, without hesitation. I solemnly ask you not to make this mistake.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42145
- I love you. "I will always love you," he said. Exactly the same words as a few weeks ago, on the sidewalk in front of her house. The first time was a promise of happiness. Today it was a curse. She turned and ran away

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42146
"Dreams became much less pleasant when they had no chance of being realized."

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42147
And now? If they could not be fully happy without each other, what would become of them?

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42148
Luck doesn't give, it lends.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42149
"Children first." Both couples had made it their motto. That was one of the few points on which they agreed. Without ever respecting it.

Ann Brashares
(The bonds that separate us)


#42150
"Reality is certainly capricious, indomitable, but infinite and resourceful."

Ann Brashares
(Three friends for life)


#42151
"It's really silly, desire. You want what you don't have and once you get it, you don't want it anymore."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42153
When you are in love, you start to admire funny things in the other.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42154
Wherever you are, at any time, if you think of me, you can be sure that I think of you.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42155
"I'm afraid I don't have enough time," Bailey said. Not enough time to understand people, know what they really are, and that they understand me too. I'm afraid of hasty judgments, of those mistakes that everyone commits. It takes time to fix them. I'm afraid I'll see only scattered images and not the whole movie.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42156
"People were divided into two categories: normal or weird. The first was straight and rigid while the second was much more extensive, but equally rigid. It doesn't matter where the quirk was and what it was. There was no degree in the weird. No weird varieties. He didn't have two options: we were weird or not. That's the end of it."

Ann Brashares
(Three friends for life)


#42165
Quinn never tried to impose his point of view on anyone. She spread her hands and let him fly like a dragonfly. It's up to his interlocutor to catch him or not. And even if you refused to catch it, you could feel it twthatting around you, it was disturbing.

Ann Brashares
(The bonds that separate us)


#42166
We can go wherever we want! And what else? We can do whatever we want. We can get married. We may not get married and live in sin. We can work. We may not work. We can lazy. We can live at the top of a skyscraper. We can decide to live on the water, in a house on stilts. We will be able to have sex every day. Twice a day. Three times a day. She raised her eyebrows. Three times a day? We've got a lot of catching up to do! She nodded. We can grow old together. "I'd love to. Have one or two babies. She seemed so enchanted by this prospect that he feared to disappoint her, but he knew that his reaction would not betray him too much. "I don't know if it's written in the stars for me," he said.

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42168
- Do you think he loves her with love? - I think he just likes it.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42169
The world is full of people who are too fragile to be supported by their shoulders.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42170
I've seen beauty in all sorts of things. I fell in love, and she continues to live. I killed her once and I died for her several times, and all in vain. I'm desperately looking for her; his memory haunts me. I remain hopeful that one day or another she will remember me and recognize me (P.10) The poor mechanics of your bird brains have been right for you, and forgetting alone was your plank of salvation (P.37) When I see myself in this life, it is usually from an outside point of view. I have the impression, despite my recollection of it, that it was not me yet. That it was someone who was going to become who I am, and that I look at that person from afar. Perhaps that is the way to live with it. (p.42) -You love your memories, but it is your friend that you must love, she recommended to her as a farewell. You remember what's lost, and you forget what's in front of you. He understood what she was trying to tell him, but he didn't reason like her and didn't look like him. -If I forget, who will remember? he inquired with an irrepresible melancholy. That will no longer exist. "It doesn't exist anymore," she sighed. (p.295)

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42174
"Love is like war, you know when it starts but never quad it ends"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42175
She wanted him to see all of her. She wanted him not to see anything of her. Let him be dazzled by every detail, blind to together. Let him have a global vision, not fragmented. His desires seemed irreconcilable.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42176
He knows. I don't know what, but he knows something. About me. He knows I'm different, that there's something wrong with me. And he's known that for a long time. That's why he takes care of me, I'm his permanent good deed. He knows I can't talk, and he doesn't insist, but he's watching me, he's trying to understand. There are moments of transparency between us where I feel all this too.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42177
Trust and love are inseparable.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42178
Remembering was easy, but living was harder.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42179
She had so many emotions to express that she felt drained in advance.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42180
I was so close to you... Suddenly you disappeared. You let me believe in you, and then you let me down. Is that how you work? You make people think you're close to them to better disappoint them?

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42181
She wanted to ask him if her love was combined with a time of the past. She would have liked to tell him that she still loved him and that, even though this love was hopeless, long gone, he continued to consume it, year after year.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42182
I wish I knew I'd loved you better. He would take her, in his arms, and all his fears, all his apprehensions would evaporate. She would let him take charge of her life because she didn't know what to do with it.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42183
Perhaps she imagined that the world would no longer exist once she had left him.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42184
Sometimes you need to tell yourself what you need to hear.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42185
"There are times in life when everything moves, everything changes. Big upheavals don't always happen in stages, sometimes everything changes all at once. That's what happened to us. That day, we discovered that friends can bring you things that parents are not capable of."

Ann Brashares
(Three friends for life)


#42186
- He loved me. But I think it's a thing of the past," she said slowly. - Of course not. It hasn't even started. Riley took Alice's bare foot in his hand and patted him. - But I warned him that he had an interest in treating you well. When you were born, I told him I wanted to share you. But I reminded her that you were my sister. I loved you first.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42189
If you sow thorns, don't walk barefoot. - Italian proverb

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42190
We all know the rules. We think about it all the time. How could we forget them? We learned them by heart before coming and they are etched in our memory by incessant repetitions.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42191
At each passer-by, he startled violently, always expecting it to be her. After an hour, he had to calm down. At least for the good reason that his body was out of adrenaline.

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42192
- Alice? She smiles at him. "Yes?" He wanted to look her in the eye. - I have something to tell you. "Yes?" She had an angel's patience. - I love you. As it was good to say at last, for millions of times when he had felt it. She smiled again. "I know. "Well," he said, "then good night." He went back to the couch and perhaps went to bed and might be able to sleep now.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42195
The famous phone call post first appointment. If the guy calls back within three days, he likes you. If he waits a week, it is because he had nothing better to do and he tried his luck out of desperation. If he doesn't call back, well, that's clear.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42196
Why did the sight of one person and not another take you so hard guts? If Bridget had been in God's place, she would have decreed by law that she would have felt such feelings for a person without sharing them.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42197
If I broke your heart, dry that mine is in pieces. I will do anything to make things different, but I don't see how I can get out of it. I'll say that now and I won't say it again. It goes against the commitment I just made, but you need to know. Everything I told you was true. And it still is. I did not lie. What I feel is more sincere than you can ever imagine. I want you to remember that. You'll get over it, I know that. I love you. I will always love you.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42198
The most frustrating thing about love stories is that you don't know how to write them on your own.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42199
They would bind themselves to the pole of cloudless happiness of childhood and thus withstand the storm.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42200
Those who wander are not always lost.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42201
Power corrupts. With absolute power, the problem is solved.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42202
"Ultimately, silence created bonds even stronger than thousands and thousands of words."

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42203
There's a lot of things like that in life. Things you can't imagine, and yet when they happen, you know they were inevitable.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42204
I killed her once and I died for her several times

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42205
Lena solemnly laid the pact on the jeans. Bridget demanded a minute's silence. "In honor of the magic jeans," she said. "And our friendship," added Lena. Carmen felt a shiver running through her. - And from that moment. This summer. The rest of our lives. "Whether we're together or separated," Tibby concludes.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42208
The risk of being struck by lightning increases if: standing under a tree with your fist raised to the sky, you shout: I'm off the storm!

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42209
The problem with this reassuring little universe is that it could not last forever and that it would let you go overnight into the chaos of the world.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42210
It was also what we recognized as a true friend, a simple girlfriend would have just said nice things to her.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42211
"Want to know our secret? it's very simple. We love one another. We care about each other. And it's very rare, you know." " I never thought it would be so hot in paradise"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42212
if we made a movie about you, it would be called "the girl who thought too much"

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42213
She was sad that people who had lost everything could still love, even though she, who had lost nothing at all, was incapable of it.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42214
It's really silly, desire. You want what you don't have, and once you get it, you don't want it anymore.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42215
You can always dream of what you want, but you have to work to get what you need

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42216
Is there a place for me in this world? James Frances

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42217
"This summer, she had not only learned to love, she had learned to let herself be loved."

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42218
"Memory sometimes plays tricks and sometimes he lies."

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42219
He wasn't just having sex with Alice, he was making peace with himself.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42220
- You have a life. Lots of friends. You're normal. What would you be doing if you weren't here? - Well... See... I can see in his head that he's teasing me. - Tonight, my mother welcomes her friends from the literary club. So I miss eight middle-aged women sipping white wine. Is that true? I pouffe. - I miss a one-on-one evening with my father, who would order fried noodles and offer to watch a men's movie, full of testosterone, with him. "And you'd say yes?" -Maybe. Otherwise Jamie Webb had invited me to a Yankees game. And I think Véronique Lasser's having a party. In an envious tone, I whisper: - It's cool. He shrugs. - I prefer the Mets and Veronique's evenings are always missed. He reaches out to take my bare foot in his hand. - You know where I want to be tonight? - Where? - Here. "Oh yes?" - Nowhere else. - Really? - Really. " Me too.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42221
"There is no other remedy for love than to love more"

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42222
"Remembering was easy, but living was harder."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42223
Fortunately, we couldn't turn off the love switch, in the end, because sometimes, even if we didn't want it, it was what we needed.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42224
You're always alone with your grief.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42225
"It's always easier to stand up to those you know you're valued at"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42226
"It was the moment they had spent together in Santorini that had disturbed her. She had felt so close to him. At the time, she thought she didn't expect anything else from him, but that wasn't true." Lena Kaligaris

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42227
Patrick the starfish: - it drives me crazy! SpongeBob: - What's going on, Patrick? Patrick the starfish: - I can't see my forehead.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42228
You don't just have to dream, you have to act sometimes

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42229
Love was a rose, the song said, and it should not be picked. She had picked it and was left with a handful of thorns.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42230
"Love or be loved, that's the question" (Lena) "You can always dream of what you want, but you have to work to get what you need" (Carmen's mother-in-law) "A pigeon is the same as a dove. Did you know that? " (Bridget) "Those who wander are not always lost." J.R.R. Tolkien

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42233
"You want what you don't have, once you get it, you don't want it anymore."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans, Tome 4: The Last Summer)


#42234
"do something on the pretext that life is too short and you can be sure it will be long enough to make you regret it"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42235
it may not be corruption or greed that makes you cowardly. Perhaps it is neither weakness nor suffering nor even fear. Maybe it's just love.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42236
Loving or being loved, that's the question.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42237
I find it hard to bear that such suffering can be summed up in a correct sentence with ordinary words. It can even be summed up in one word: trial.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42238
You can't always make your past and your future live together

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans, Tome 4: The Last Summer)


#42239
You are with me, [...], in all my thoughts, all my projects, my pleasures, my wanderings, my successes and my sorrows. What I see, I see with your eyes too, and with you I am more determined and better than I can ever be without you. (p388)

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42240
He would have given anything to stop loving him. The old tricks didn't work anymore. In fact, they had never worked. How did you end up loving someone? It was one of the most intractable puzzles there is. The more stubborn we were, the less it worked.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42241
What are you afraid of? The question came out of Tibby's mouth faster than she wanted. Bailey's thinking. "I'm afraid of time. She answered bravely, without flinching in front of Cyclops' big eye from the camera. "I'm afraid I don't have enough time," she said. Not enough time to understand people, know what they really are, and that they understand me too. I'm afraid of these hasty judgments, of the mistakes that everyone makes. It takes time to fix them. I'm afraid I'll see only scattered images and not the whole movie.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42248
"It was the reality to tell you the extent of your illusions."

Ann Brashares
(Love lasts more than a lifetime)


#42249
Like many people, including perhaps Paul, Alice had discovered a real passion for sleep as a teenager, but Riley certainly wasn't.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42250
He still didn't dare look at her. He didn't know what to say. He wanted to leave. That was clear. - I'm sorry. As he walked away, she threw his pen in his back. It sucked to say that.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42251
People would let a lot of things behind when they entered the water. [...] Some even lost their personality, but it was underwater that Riley felt most herself. She knew that water was supposed to symbolize renewal, but when she swam - cut off from the world, alone and inaccessible - it was as if she plunged back to her deep self.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42252
She could still feel her cheek against her chest. As he could be close, as he could be far away, while she waited, always in the same place.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42253
She did not open the envelope until she was at the bus station to pay for her ticket. He had not given her the thousand dollars she had asked for. He had given her ten miles.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42254
"Remembering was easy; but living was harder."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42255
"She was sad for Kostos. And even sadder that people like him, like Bee, people who had lost everything, could still love, while she, who had lost nothing at all, was unable to do so."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42256
- I think sometimes it's easier to blame those you trust. - Why?! What for?! Why is it like this?! - Because you know that no matter what happens they will always love you...

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42257
I look at the people around me. They're my friends. I care about them. It's my life. They talk about their belts, their shoes, the car they would like to have, the last movie they saw and I don't hear them because ghosts cover their voices.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42258
We could decide to close, to protect ourselves, but as soon as we opened up to emotions, there was no way to sort it out. That was the problem, when we let them in, they made a big mess.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42259
Our room is on the seventh floor, with "partial sea view" - which means that, perched on the small balcony, twisting his neck to the right, we see a small blue triangle.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42260
It's not fair. Humans versus mosquitoes. Who should win? We built rockets and cathedrals. We have composed poems and symphonies. We found a way to travel back in time. And yet. We have trashed the planet to meet our needs, so it is the mosquito that will win. Unless we can turn things around, he's going to win.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42261
She had one last thought before putting her brain on hold. "I never thought it was so hot in paradise"

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42262
"I think I have lost it," she said solemnly. "What?" said Tibby, raising his head from his luggage. I'm going to have to I think I lost the old Bee. [...] -When I think back to the girl I was, she seems so far away... She always walked fast, I drag my feet. She went to bed late and got up early, I spend my time sleeping. I feel like if she keeps moving away, I'll never be able to find her again. -And... Do you want to find her? This year, Bee had done everything to radically change. And Tibby had a little idea about his motives. Without being able to escape his problems, Bee had put in place an ultra-sophisticated protection system. Tibby knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. She also knew how tempting it was to give up that part of her suffering, to get rid of her sadness, her devastated happiness like an old sweater too small. -If I want to? Bee weighed every word carefully. "Yes, I think so. Tears flooded her eyes, sticking her blonde eyelashes in bundles, Tibby felt her eyesight blurred. "Then you have to find her," she said, her throat tight. Bee deplia one of his arms and left it there, open, palm facing the ceiling. Without even thinking Tibby got up to take her hand. Then her friend put her head on her shoulder and she felt her hair and tears tickled her collarbone. "That's why I'm 19th," Bee confessed. Later, when Tibby found herself alone, she compared herself to her. It was not as destructive, nor so radical. Great melodramas, it wasn't his thing. She preferred to flee her ghosts, quietly and without shrapnel.

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42265
- I clung to logic, I tried to convince myself that my decision to leave Kaya was purely rational and not motivated by the crazy, irresistible attraction I felt for you. "And then," she asked in a breath, "was it purely rational?" He looked her in the eye. - Not at all.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42266
"Life is a long journey that brings us home."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42267
It's up to you to put magic into your life.

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42268
Nothing had changed: today, as yesterday, to brave the current, we held hands.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans: The complete)


#42269
"All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free"

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42270
There are two tragedies in life. One is to see his desires dissatisfied. The other is to see them satisfied

Ann Brashares
(Four Girls and a Pair of Jeans, Tome 2: The Second Summer)


#42271
She glanced at her sister, who had risen, stretching her neck, hands on her hips, in her lifesguard break on alert

Ann Brashares
(You and me forever)


#42272
You can always dream of what you want, but you have to work to get what you need.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 1: The First Summer)


#42273
"_Je don't say you have to forget. It's impossible, of course. But you have to learn to live with your grief, integrate it into your life and move forward. You'll see, over time, it's less and less heavy to carry."

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 5: Forever)


#42274
Truth has a unique force. Contrary to lies, it consolidates over time, and has the power to link disparate feelings and ideas to each other, which no lie would be capable of.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42275
I hear the ghosts that haunt this room, all the people we lost in our old lives and who demand that they be remembered. Except we are not allowed to. I hear the murmur of what we feel without daring to express it, that too, I hear it.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42276
The future has no will of its own. We're the ones who make the future.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42277
As in any strict political or religious system, the more restrictive the rules, the more necessary it is to repeat them to the practitioners.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42278
What if the future doesn't want to change? What if what's going to happen anyway? What if our actions had no influence, if it made no difference whether we were heroes or cowards?

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42279
Lying there, in the sand, I imagine what happiness is. Not an intense, hectic joy, but a complete happiness, clear and dark at the same time, an almost painful sensation. A prism through which I can contemplate the whole world. That I can extend to other places, at other times of the day. Take it in my pocket like a pair of binoculars, to take it out whenever I want, look through and remind me at all times that this happiness exists.

Ann Brashares
(Here and now)


#42280
You're not really someone until you have a boyfriend? Why do you have to be in love?

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and jeans, Volume 3: The Third Summer)


#42281
I never thought it was so hot in paradise.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans - Full, Volume 1)


#42282
Lena solemnly laid the pact on the jeans. Bridget demanded a minute's silence. "In honor of the magic jeans," she said. "And our friendship," added Lena. Carmen felt a shiver running through her. - And from that moment. This summer. The rest of our lives. "Whether we're together or separated," Tibby concludes.

Ann Brashares
(Four girls and a pair of jeans - Full, Volume 1)


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