Ann Brashares Quotes

A collection of quotes by Ann Brashares.

Ann Brashares is an American author known for her popular young adult novels. She was born on July 30, 1967, in Alexandria, Virginia. Brashares is best known for her bestselling series, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," which follows the lives of four friends and their adventures. The series was later adapted into a successful film franchise. Brashares has also written other novels, including "My Name is Memory" and "The Here and Now." Her works often explore themes of friendship, love, and self-discovery.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad s

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

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you

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.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a w

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

Life Happiness Love Peace Sex Absence Weapon Lesson

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'l

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.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

Thought Inspirational Sisterhood

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it

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.

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and o

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.

Good Love Generous Nothing To Give Self Destruct Wished

It was funny how the old practices always came around again.

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.

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories w

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.

Love Body Hurt Prison Walk Escape Memories Leave

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Philosophy Inspirational

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of p

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.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions,

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

Truth Perception Observation First Impressions

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. Bu

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

Life Hope Change Past Inspirational Inspiration

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost

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.

Life Death People Dream Forgiven Failures

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like

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.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult bo

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