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
phones worst-enemy enemy
The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
hard
Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
distance taken someday
He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
past matter no-matter-what
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
memories blessing giving
It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.
real long-ago world
She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
long world four
You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ” “Ready.” “At least I tried.
strong trying have-faith
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
heart tragedy admitting
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
mistake sacrifice asking
It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
summer needs
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
circles light understanding
The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
dream chance
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.