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. Ann Brashares
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Characters belong to the writer and the readers equally, the readers expand them in ways that the writer can't go. This quote is a humorous use of a common saying. It is a play on the word "expand."

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  1. Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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  3. 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.
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