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.
  4. 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.
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