This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Ann Brashares

Tags: advice beautiful want offer



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You Could Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make Your Whole Trip That Way :)

Ann Brashares


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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Ann Brashares

Tags: love people leave



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Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Ann Brashares

Tags: love good generous nothing-to-give self-destruct wished



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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

Tags: life child mouse valuable



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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

Ann Brashares

Tags: soul body missing



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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

Tags: vision world heaven yearning water stillness beautiful alternate-universe lost-city



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Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.

Ann Brashares

Tags: mother left missed cried leavers precious-gifts uterus



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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.

Ann Brashares

Tags: alone pathetic terrible wait



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It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Ann Brashares

Tags: life people death dream failures forgiven



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