The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
Ann BrasharesCarmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.
Ann BrasharesShe wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
Ann BrasharesShe couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.
Ann BrasharesYou get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this… Ready ”
“Ready.”
“At least I tried.
It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.
Ann BrasharesShe had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
Ann BrasharesIt was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.
Ann BrasharesHe no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.
Ann BrasharesThe present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
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