Frases de Ann Brashares

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“Tú seguirás tu camino, sé que lo harás. Y yo me pasaré toda la vida sin tenerte.”

“El la empujaba a autodestruirse. Hacía que ella deseara y luego no le daba ninguna satisfacción.”

“Toda su vida desde que Bailey había muerto le parecía de pronto como el vagabundeo lejano de un amnésico, lleno de confusión y olvido.”

“¿Iban a sumirla en la tristeza antes de hacerla feliz? No, por favor.”

“Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.”

“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.”

“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.”

“Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared…," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.”

“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”

“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?… Wear that dress.”

“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”

“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”

“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”

“The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.”

“She wanted him to notice her so much.”

“I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.”

“There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.”

“I always search for her; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.”

“Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1.
-Duncan Howe”

“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.”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“Sometimes you need to make a mess.
-Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”

“She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.”

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you… he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

“I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny”

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

“Luck never gives; it lends.”

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

“Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?”