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Ann Brashares, born on July 30, 1967, is a renowned film writer known for her profound character development and engaging storytelling.

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Famous Ann Brashares Quotes

“What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

Knows Want Feels Happens Felt My Own Happened How You Feel

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“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.”

Knows Feels Hate Love You Let Me Hate You Let Me Love You

Author:Ann Brashares

“All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.”

Way Feels Looks Seems Appropriate

Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.”

Way Feels Made Feelings Trouble Mess

Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

“She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?”

Feels Trying Faces Sun Appreciate Gazing Soaking

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.”

Life Feels Hard Emotion Example Ready Eating Teeth Bowls Right Time Cereal Flossing

Author:Ann Brashares

“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.”

Feels Long Matter Happens Remember Demand Despair No Matter What Who We Are Keep The Faith

Author:Ann Brashares

“The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.”

Feels Enough Bigs Seems Forget

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Faces Harder Stronger

Book:Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

Ifs Knows Feels Pain Joy Friendship Inspirational Love Loved Ones Loving Someone Love And Friendship Joy And Pain

Book:Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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

Feels Happens How You Feel

Author:Ann Brashares

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”

Ifs Way Feels Persons Made Law Made It Stomach Agony Churning

Book:Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.”

Ifs Feels Strong Emotion Land Planes

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“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.”

Feels Heart Past Felt Middle Broken Empty Broken Heart Cried Absent Outlines Heart Felt

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.”

People Knows Way Want Feels Looks Would Be Happened Odd Yearning Embarrassed Separate Ways

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.”

Feels Feelings Wanted Felt Miserable Feel Better

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.”

Feels Past Suffering Destructive Fragile

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Writing Firsts Mean Long Hard Jobs Pressure Starting Sentences Release Nonsense Songwriting Permission Bad Jobs

Author:Ann Brashares

“I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.”

People Feels Persons Able

Author:Ann Brashares

“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.”

Feels Character Loses Cases Baby Losing Yourself

Author:Ann Brashares

About the Author

Born: July 30, 1967
Known for: Film writer
Quotes: 314

Books & Sources

My Name Is MemoryRelated source material

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete CollectionRelated source material

Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A NovelRelated source material

The Last Summer (of You and Me)Related source material

Sisterhood EverlastingRelated source material

Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the SisterhoodRelated source material

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