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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

“This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”

Want Beautiful Advice Offer

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

“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

“Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”

Ifs Want Trying Wells May Might Fall Okay

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.”

Want Wells Made Feelings Faces Grows Millions Sun Air Cry Skins Weather Extras Sunshine Warmth Tenderness

Author:Ann Brashares

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother”

Want Needs Wish What You Want Grandmother

Author:Ann Brashares

“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.”

Knows Want Persons Said Ideas Different Mother Turns Scared Stranger Hated Motorcycle

Author:Ann Brashares

“Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.”

Thinking Want Together Meant To Be Meant To Be Together Were Meant To Be Together

Author:Ann Brashares

“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

Want Worry What You Want Getting What You Want

Book:Summers of the Sisterhood

Source: Summers of the Sisterhood

“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”

Want Able Wanted Tired

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“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.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Needed Flip

Author:Ann Brashares

“But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.”

Thinking Knows Want Girl Wise Odds Wise Girl

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

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

“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”

Want Said Soul Together Dying Scared Back Together

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276”

Ifs Want I Can Beautiful Advice Offers What You Want Bitter

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

“Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.”

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.”

Want Writing Trying May I Can Ideas Stories Fall Teach Lessons Chips

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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