There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.
Ann BrasharesShe was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
Ann BrasharesMaybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
Ann BrasharesHe took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
Ann BrasharesA loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Ann BrasharesMots clés inspirational-quotes
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Ann BrasharesLet me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and lt me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.
Ann BrasharesPeople said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)
Ann BrasharesIt was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)
Ann BrasharesCould she kiss him? Would he allow her that? Was that something he could pretend was nothing? What about making love? Could she just open up her legs and pull him inside her and have him all she wanted and later give her assent that it was nothing?
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