Ann Brashares Quotes: 28

• 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.

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

• Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

  Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

• When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

• Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

  My Name Is Memory

• 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.

• When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

  Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

• Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

  My Name Is Memory

• Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• 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.

  Sisterhood Everlasting

• You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

• I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

• Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

• 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.

• She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

  Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

• He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

• She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

  My Name Is Memory

• Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

• How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

  My Name Is Memory

• It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

  My Name Is Memory

• I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

• Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

  Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

• 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.

  Sisterhood Everlasting

• You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

  Sisterhood Everlasting