Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth30 July 1967
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
life-is-too-short long would-be
Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.
school thinking house
We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
falling-in-love fall people
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
waiting too-much relief
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.
parent doubted
She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
appreciate trying faces
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn’t have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
stranger oldest-friends
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
my-boyfriend doe ifs
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
character writing comedy
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
fall trying may
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.
beautiful people beautiful-people
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
years progress three
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?
inspirational attitude problem
Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
thinking hey gaps
She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.