I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
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.
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
You know what the secret is? It’s so simple. We love one another. We’re nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? – Carmen
Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.
When you feel someone else’s pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.
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.
He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
Ann Brashares