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#1

“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”
― Em Bailey, Shift

tags: crying, dog, laughing

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#2

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
― Em Bailey, Shift

tags: novel, romance

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#3

“I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.”
― Em Bailey, Shift

tags: interesting, people, weird

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#4

“He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist

tags: forgot, images, planets, stars, words

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#5

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist

tags: books, childhood, photographs, scenes, time

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#6

“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist

tags: biography, fictions, life, lived, memories

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#7

“Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: expression, goon, time

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#8

“She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: 80s, friendships, future, music, tattoos

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#9

“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: time

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#10

“I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ...
"You grew up, Alex.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: grew-up, time

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#11

“What's the occasion?" she asked.
He kissed her ear. "I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride."
She laughed. "You have that every night."
"That's why I want to celebrate.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: carmen

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#12

“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 it anymore.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

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#13

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: habits, life, quiet

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#14

“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. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: adventure, life, life-and-living, old, painful, quiet

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#15

“I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: girls, picture, small

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#16

“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: forgotten, friends, herself

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#17

“Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: carmen, lena, mourned, separation

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#18

“Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: friendship, independent, lives, meaning

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#19

“They 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. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

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#20

“Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: body, escape, hurt, leave, love, memories, prison, walk

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#21

“Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: change, fond, past, present, sealed, tibby

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#22

“There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: emotions

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#23

“She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: broken-heart, cried, empty, nothing, outline, past, present

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#24

“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: consumed, feelings, love, tangled

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#25

“She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: brave, fearful, life, small

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#26

“Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: defeat, grief, hard, life, newborn, room

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#27

“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, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: celebrated, crumbs, different, eating, feast, forever, grown-up, life, old-self, something, tenaciously, worshipped, years

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#28

“She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: inclination, unhappy, wish, wondered

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#29

“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.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: blood, death, envy, god, heart, lungs, moving-forward, pang

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#30

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

tags: leave, love, people

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