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
Ann Brashares quotes about
father book two
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
writing thinking world
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
nice way busy
My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
expectations easier bigs
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
children reading parent
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
girl teenage writing
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
beautiful tree growing
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
wanted
She wanted him to notice her so much.
feelings over-you comfort
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
dream people done
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.
expression waiting serious
How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
long-ago missing soul
She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
beautiful cities water
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.
unhappy wish made
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.