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1. "She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and clear everything away. Rain never came when you asked for it." ~ Ann Brashares
2. "As it was a small town and a bored town and a hopeful town, kids talked and rumors started." ~ Ann Brashares
3. "There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new." ~ Ann Brashares
4. "This was the part of her weekend where the real dread kicked in." ~ Ann Brashares
5. "Finally, she was doing something. She didn't know what, exactly, but action always suited her better than waiting around." ~ Ann Brashares
6. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
7. "I killed her once and died for her many times" ~ Ann Brashares
8. "Tibby was shaking her head."What?" Bailey asked."Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said.Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised." ~ Ann Brashares
9. "He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over and over.But no matter how many times he said it, no matter how much she knew he meant it, the words stirred around in her ear but didn't get into her brain. Sometimes he could comfort her. Sometimes he said what she needed, but today he couldn't reach her. Nothing could." ~ Ann Brashares
10. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
11. "But it was smell that carried memory." ~ Ann Brashares
12. "When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word." ~ Ann Brashares
13. "Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought." ~ Ann Brashares
14. "She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ..." ~ Ann Brashares
15. "She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly." ~ Ann Brashares
16. "She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy." ~ Ann Brashares
17. "Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to." ~ Ann Brashares
18. "You forget your victories, but you remember the losses." ~ Ann Brashares
19. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
20. "She wasn't sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both." ~ Ann Brashares
21. "You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want." ~ Ann Brashares
22. "One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made." ~ Ann Brashares
23. "You should find him because he loves you." ~ Ann Brashares
24. "I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny" ~ Ann Brashares
25. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
26. "If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death." ~ Ann Brashares
27. "A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting." ~ Ann Brashares
28. "She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts." ~ Ann Brashares
29. "The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it." ~ Ann Brashares
30. "Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out." ~ Ann Brashares
31. "She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own." ~ Ann Brashares
32. "In this present body he hadn't been loved, and he found almost nothing to love about himself." ~ Ann Brashares
33. "The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford." ~ Ann Brashares
34. "I wanted to come more than halfway." ~ Ann Brashares
35. "Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us." ~ Ann Brashares
36. "Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball." ~ Ann Brashares
37. "They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age." ~ Ann Brashares
38. "She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?" ~ Ann Brashares
39. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
40. "Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you." ~ Ann Brashares
41. "I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting." ~ Ann Brashares
42. "All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?" ~ Ann Brashares
43. "I like that you let yourself be surprised" ~ Ann Brashares
44. "All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do." ~ Ann Brashares
45. "He could lose himself in her forever, he thought." ~ Ann Brashares
46. "I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on." ~ Ann Brashares
47. "She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her." ~ Ann Brashares
48. "The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched." ~ Ann Brashares
49. "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." ~ Ann Brashares
50. "Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one." ~ Ann Brashares
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