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
mother jeans long-ago
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
sadness faces comfort
Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
father people cases
Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.
transition moments made
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
wanted ifs
She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
pain trying surround-yourself
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
swimming together dying
I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.
thinking together want
Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
worry getting-what-you-want want
The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
forget enough bigs
The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
bees ghost dramatic
She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
kids air hands
He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
believe mean thinking
People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)
self people giving
It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)