Ann Brashares Quotes

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

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

~ Ann Brashares

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

~ Ann Brashares

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

~ Ann Brashares

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand

~ Ann Brashares

I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.

~ Ann Brashares

Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren.

~ Ann Brashares

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

~ Ann Brashares

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

~ Ann Brashares

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

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

~ Ann Brashares

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

~ Ann Brashares

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

~ Ann Brashares

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

~ Ann Brashares

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

~ Ann Brashares

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

~ Ann Brashares

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

~ Ann Brashares

sometimes you need to make a mess.

~ Ann Brashares

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

~ Ann Brashares

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

~ Ann Brashares

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

~ Ann Brashares

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

~ Ann Brashares

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

~ Ann Brashares