Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth30 July 1967
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
boys bullshit different
She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.
three no-excuses realizing
He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
girl choices world
If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.
uncertain messy finished
Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.
beautiful advice want
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
people precious-gifts leavers
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
changed
But like everything else, love changed.
greek lasts hey
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.
sacrifice
Everything good requires sacrifices.
loss victory remember
You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.
broken-heart heart broken
She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
relieved persons disappointed
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
running pain trying
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.
ideas
Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?