Top 300 Ann Brashares Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.”

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252. “There are some people who fall in love over and over.”

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253. “She remembered me.′ This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.”

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254. “She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.”

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255. “I Pantaloni ci promettevano che c’era tempo. Niente sarebbe andato perduto. Avevamo un anno intero, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno. Avevamo tutta la strada fino all’estate successiva: allora avremmo tirato fuori i Pantaloni e, insieme o separate, avremmo ricominciato da capo.”

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256. “He’d pushed her. He’d scared her. He’d besieged her. He’d vowed he wouldn’t, and he did.”

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257. “It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.”

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258. “Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.”

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259. “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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260. “By day she studied and touched her mother’s things, and by night, she dreamed about them. The dreams gave her as fragmented a vision of Marley as the boxes in the attic did. There were a thousand dramatic episodes, but very little sense of the person linking them together.”

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261. “Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.”

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262. “We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.”

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

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264. “He’s had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn’t.”

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265. “But now he held her. He forgot to worry as much about waking her up. She turned her body to his, eyes closed, and curled herself around him. She pressed her cheek to her chest, and he felt the tickle of her hair in his neck and under his nose. Trust and love went together.”

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266. “For nine years Paul had not called her by her name. She had always been “Shorty” or “Kid” or “You” to him since she was twelve. It wasn’t until her first night working as a waitress at the yacht club that Alice realized this.”

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267. “Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.”

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268. “He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.”

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269. “Luck never gives; it lends.”

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270. “I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.”

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271. “We’re the Septembers now. The real ones. We are everything to one another. We don’t need to say so; it’s just true. Sometimes it seems like we’re so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones. We settle into types- Bridget the athlete, Lena the beauty, Tibby the rebel, and me, Carmen, the... what? The one with the bad temper. But the one who cares the most. The one who cares that we stick together.”

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272. “Bridget saw chaos.”

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273. “She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.”

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274. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill.”

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275. “You carry your past with you even if you don’t remember any of it.”

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276. “Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.”

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277. “They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.”

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278. “All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.”

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279. “Why couldn’t it belong to him anymore? Why couldn’t he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.”

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280. “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.”

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281. “What was powerful at thirteen and seventeen should have grown quaint by twenty-four, and yet the covenant, by its nature had durability. It still existed between them. He could feel it even now. You could go away for months and years, but it was still here, bound to what you loved, binding you to it.”

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282. “Some girls couldn’t stand being alone. Bridget was different. She went to movies, restaurants, even parties by herself. She loved her three friends above all other things, but she’d rather be alone than cling to people she didn’t care about.”

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283. “The notorious after-date phone call. If a guy called within three days, he liked you. If he waited a week, that meant he didn’t have any better options and was probably just trying to get lucky. If he didn’t call at all, well, that-was obvious.”

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284. “Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.”

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285. “If I could meet you again, at a different time under different circumstances, I could let myself worship you the way you deserve.”

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286. “Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say “Storms suck!” – Johnny carson.”

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287. “A pigeon is the same thing as a dove. Did you know that?”

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288. “Once upon a time there was a pair of pants.”

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289. “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.”

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290. “There are some people who fall in love over and over.” Tibby nodded, understanding the particular melancholy as it revealed itself on Lena’s face. “And there are others who can only seem to do it once.”

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291. “Each time her mind flashed on that image for a second, a fraction of a second, it blinded her like a flashbulb, burning out the center of her mind’s eye to blackness.”

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292. “Clearly this wasn’t the kind of household where they ate steak every night. And so Tibby chewed the meat with as much vigor as was possible for a girl who had been a vegetarian since she was nine.”

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293. “She needed to know someone was looking out for her. She needed someone to promise her that the world wasn’t empty.”

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294. “What was this compulsive need to be loveable?”

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295. “She didn’t open the envelope until she’d gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn’t given her the thousand dollars she’d asked for-he’d given her ten thousand.”

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296. “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.”

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297. “She was already lost – she couldn’t really get more lost, could she? When you belonged nowhere, you sort of belonged everywhere.”

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298. “Anatole and I had barely kissed. Most couples in the history of the world had barely kissed. It’s when the world changed and people started doing everything else, that’s when everybody got divorced.”

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299. “She wanted his profession of feelings to do the trick. She really did. She knew he wanted that too. Whether he spoke the truth or not, he thought he could make her feel better, and he really, really wanted to. But it wasn’t what she needed. Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.”

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300. “Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place.”

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