You just have to let people love you in the way they can
Ann BrasharesTags: tibby
Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.
Ann BrasharesTags: inspirational thought sisterhood
d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way up to her face. [Lena]
Ann BrasharesIt was endlessly tricky being in the know. It was a state Carmen had a achieved with a certain bravado, but she found it difficult to maintain. Without Jones, she could easily slip out of the know, relapse into her natural eagerness, and probably never get hired for another part in her life.
Ann BrasharesThey were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate
Ann Brashareshe occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He 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 where it went anymore.
Ann BrasharesShe'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. 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.
Ann BrasharesShe 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 BrasharesIt took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
Ann BrasharesIf you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
Ann BrasharesTags: life death way-of-life
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