Ann Brashares
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.Collection: Teen
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.Collection: Famous
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.
My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
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.
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.
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
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.
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.Collection: I Hate You
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.Collection: Being Happy
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Happiness
Everything good requires sacrifices.Collection: Sacrifice
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach BrevinCollection: Attitude
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Time
The path of your life can change in an instant.Collection: Path
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.Collection: How You Feel
When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.Collection: Remember
When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoesCollection: Funny
There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.Collection: Looks
There are some people who fall in love over and over.Collection: Falling In Love
Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.Collection: Fun
He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.Collection: Care
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.Collection: Loving Someone
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.Collection: Waiting
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming trueCollection: Dream
You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.Collection: Past
Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.Collection: Love
Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.Collection: Inspirational
But it was smell that carried memory.Collection: Memories
Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.Collection: Memories
She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.Collection: Together
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.Collection: Expression
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.Collection: Sadness
I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.Collection: Saws
He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.Collection: Forever
Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.Collection: Dying
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.Collection: Feel Better
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.Collection: Haunting
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragileCollection: Beautiful
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.Collection: Soccer
She wanted him to notice her so much.Collection: Wanted
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.Collection: Over You