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Top 300 Ann Brashares Quotes (2026 Update)
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Ann Brashares Quote: “I killed her once and died for her many times.”

151. “I killed her once and died for her many times.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.”

152. “She was so much softer then, so much more willing to fall in love, or believe she was.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Bridget’s anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.”

153. “Bridget’s anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

154. “Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”

155. “She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.”

156. “She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn’t easily cross.”

157. “Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn’t easily cross.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.”

158. “He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn’t torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.”

159. “She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn’t torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”

160. “Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.”

161. “Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams. Were you allowed to change from one side to the other?”

162. “She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams. Were you allowed to change from one side to the other?”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I’ve learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don’t think of and take them to places I can’t go.”

163. “I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I’ve learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don’t think of and take them to places I can’t go.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

164. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.”

165. “Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.”

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

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

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”

167. “She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but never made progress.”

168. “Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but never made progress.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

169. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Carmen didn’t like change, and she certainly didn’t like endings.”

170. “Carmen didn’t like change, and she certainly didn’t like endings.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day – whatever suits you.”

171. “A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day – whatever suits you.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

172. “The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”

173. “How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “What business had she to try to capture life and light?”

174. “What business had she to try to capture life and light?”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.”

175. “Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.”

176. “He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.”

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

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

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Ann Brashares Quote: “It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.”

178. “It was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

179. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”

180. “It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn’t want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.”

181. “Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn’t want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true.”

182. “The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

183. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”

184. “He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn’t retrieve them when they were gone.”

185. “Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn’t retrieve them when they were gone.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

186. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Girls who wouldn’t take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget.”

187. “Girls who wouldn’t take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”

188. “It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Tibby, you are crazy,” Carmen said. “Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind.” She couldn’t help seeing the pants in a completely new way.”

189. “Tibby, you are crazy,” Carmen said. “Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind.” She couldn’t help seeing the pants in a completely new way.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.”

190. “She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

191. “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.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.”

192. “I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You’re fine and we’re fine. I hope it’s true.”

193. “I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You’re fine and we’re fine. I hope it’s true.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “This body is breaking down, but I am not.”

194. “This body is breaking down, but I am not.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

195. “She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Love didn’t necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

196. “Love didn’t necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “Do you have any idea how much I’ve loved you?”

197. “Do you have any idea how much I’ve loved you?”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.”

198. “She wished she could swap her days for her nights, her reality for her dreams.”

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Ann Brashares Quote: “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.”

199. “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.”

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

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

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