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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
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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
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.Ann Brashares
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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.Ann Brashares
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A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.Ann Brashares
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Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.Ann Brashares
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The path of your life can change in an instant.Ann Brashares
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My memory is good for some things and not others.Ann Brashares
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But it was smell that carried memory.Ann Brashares
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She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each timeAnn Brashares
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People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.Ann Brashares
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I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.Ann Brashares
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How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?Ann Brashares