Quotes by Ann Brashares

“Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I s...”

“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of ce...”

“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 ...”

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didnt come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you werent ready, when you were just innocently flossing your t...”

“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”

“Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand”

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

“Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmo...”

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

“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldnt forget?”

“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 stra...”

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water to...”

“People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sightat least as the normally exper...”

“The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those m...”

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

“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”

“Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.”

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldnt decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a ...”

“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 books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.”