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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

“Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.”

Long Enough Would Be Life Is Excuse Hated Too Short Life Is Too Short

Author:Ann Brashares

“It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.”

Long Joy Mother Four Long Ago Jeans

Book:The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“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

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

Long Soul Beautiful Fleeting Haul Long Haul Prettiness

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.”

Ifs World Wells Long Real Enough Courageous Long Ago Uncertain Real Friends

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

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

“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.”

Ifs World Long Four Ready Comfort Offers Sentences One Sentence

Author:Ann Brashares

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

Long Hours Habit Quiet Studios

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

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

“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.”

Long Happened Separation Suspects Mourn

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

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

“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.”

Years Long Stills Feelings Wanted Over It Hopeless Consumed Strands Tangled Hairballs

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

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

“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.”

Long Soul Body Three Left Felt Happened Missing Months Long Ago Coming Back Greece Three Months

Author:Ann Brashares

“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

“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”

Heart Long Stills Moving Choices Felt Blood Envy Moving Forward Filling Lungs

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

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

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