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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.Ann Brashares
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.Ann Brashares
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They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.Ann Brashares
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Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.Ann Brashares
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Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.Ann Brashares
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Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.Ann Brashares
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[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.Ann Brashares
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Sometimes you need to make a mess.Ann Brashares
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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.Ann Brashares