Ann Brashares Quotes - Page 2

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.