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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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“There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.”

People World Kind Two Humor Funny This World Divides

Author:Ann Brashares

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

World Facts Wanted Mystery Technique Brutal His Love Loving Someone Stop Loving Someone

Book:The Last Summer (of You and Me)

Source: The Last Summer (of You and Me)

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.”

World Way Wells Wanted Hate Felt Hurt Needed Bitter Awful Tragic Vicious Avoided Predicaments Wanted To Be Loved Hating Yourself

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”

World Enough Missing Figures Supposed To Be Places In The World

Author:Ann Brashares

“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”

Ifs World Mother Honestly Exception

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”

People Thinking World Believe Mean Said Able Imagine Factors Imagine That

Author:Ann Brashares

“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

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

Ifs World Made Moments Happens Choices Girl Chance Saws This World Eternity Slim This Girl

Author:Ann Brashares

“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.”

World Beautiful Universe Lost Heaven Water Cities Vision Versions Stillness

Author:Ann Brashares

“Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.”

Ifs World Littles Half Knowing Satisfaction Satisfied Touched Despised

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.”

World Way Kind Ideas Fictional Worlds

Author:Ann Brashares

“Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.”

Ifs World Matter Asks Dying Painful Geek World Famous

Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection

“To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.”

Thinking World Writing Stories

Author:Ann Brashares

About the Author

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

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