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
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.
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.
nice simple secret
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
brave brain would-be
She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
haunting afar way
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
waiting way docks
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
how-you-feel feels happens
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
reflection forget ifs
How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?
relieved persons disappointed
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
waiting be-good stills
She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.
possibility
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
how-you-feel want feels
What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
nice way busy
My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
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.