Top 300 Ann Brashares Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Your problem isn’t the problem, it’s your attitude about the problem.”

— Ann Brashares

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2. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

3. “The path of your life can change in an instant.”

— Ann Brashares

4. “You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.”

— Ann Brashares

5. “Everything good requires sacrifices.”

— Ann Brashares

6. “A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.”

— Ann Brashares

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

— Ann Brashares

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

— Ann Brashares

9. “Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.”

— Ann Brashares

10. “Don’t talk to me. I’m tired and grumpy and I’ll probably make fun of you.”

— Ann Brashares

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11. “Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile.”

— Ann Brashares

12. “Pain is fear, and I’m not afraid.”

— Ann Brashares

13. “When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you’re a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”

— Ann Brashares

14. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

— Ann Brashares

15. “Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”

— Ann Brashares

16. “The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.”

— Ann Brashares

17. “I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.”

— Ann Brashares

18. “She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn’t going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”

— Ann Brashares

19. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

20. “At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can’t take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it’s like nothing you’ve ever felt.”

— Ann Brashares

21. “When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.”

— Ann Brashares

22. “She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”

— Ann Brashares

23. “I love you, I’ll never stop.”

— Ann Brashares

24. “I’m not going anywhere without you. We’re swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I’m dying with you before I’m living without you.”

— Ann Brashares

25. “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

— Ann Brashares

26. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

27. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

28. “I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”

— Ann Brashares

29. “It’s so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.”

— Ann Brashares

30. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

31. “She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.”

— Ann Brashares

32. “You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this... Ready? At least I tried.”

— Ann Brashares

33. “Life isn’t just fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. -William Goldman.”

— Ann Brashares

34. “Patrick: I’m mad. SpongeBob: What’s the matter, Patrick? Patrick: I can’t see my forehead.”

— Ann Brashares

35. “Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you’d recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”

— Ann Brashares

36. “Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.”

— Ann Brashares

37. “I like that you let yourself be surprised.”

— Ann Brashares

38. “When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.”

— Ann Brashares

39. “Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson.”

— Ann Brashares

40. “Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks. The traffic signal that said walk the second you got there, that happened to every person in the course of a day.”

— Ann Brashares

41. “One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”

— Ann Brashares

42. “What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.”

— Ann Brashares

43. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

44. “Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.”

— Ann Brashares

45. “Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”

— Ann Brashares

46. “Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.”

— Ann Brashares

47. “You know what the secret is? It’s so simple. We love one another. We’re nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? – Carmen.”

— Ann Brashares

48. “Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a girl who can’t put her pants on. -Annik Marchand.”

— Ann Brashares

49. “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.”

— Ann Brashares

50. “Maybe, sometimes, it’s easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they’ll always love you, no matter what.”

— Ann Brashares