482 Quotes by Ann Brashares

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

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

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.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

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

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

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.

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