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
path instant
The path of your life can change in an instant.
i-hate-you past opportunity
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
knowing half world
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
talking
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
friendship pain joy
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
beautiful mistake critical-decisions
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
happiness being-happy sisterhood
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.
happiness lonely thinking
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
hate love-you let-me
Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
birthday depression time
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
time mistake mean
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
looks forget
There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
powerful two soul
But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
trying alive bigs
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.