110+ Ann Brashares Quotes On Friendship, Education And Feminism

Ann Brashares is an American novelist and film writer best known for her series of young adult novels, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She has also written two adult novels and a collection of short stories. Brashares is also a screenwriter, having written the screenplay for the film adaptation of her novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ann Brashares on friendship, love, education.

Top 10 Ann Brashares Quotes

1. I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
2. You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
3. When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
4. When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
5. When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
6. Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
7. Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
8. I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
9. Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.
10. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin

Ann Brashares Short Quotes

• The path of your life can change in an instant.
• Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
• No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
• People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
• One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.
• Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
• We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
• My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
• Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
• Wear them, they will make you brave.

Ann Brashares Quotes About Friendship

A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you. — Ann Brashares

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. — Ann Brashares

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. — Ann Brashares

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both. — Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares Quotes About Love

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

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. — Ann Brashares

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. — Ann Brashares

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. — Ann Brashares

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 — Ann Brashares

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot. — Ann Brashares

Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart. — Ann Brashares

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once. — Ann Brashares

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way. — Ann Brashares

I love you, I'll never stop. — Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares Quotes About Emotional

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. — Ann Brashares

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually. — Ann Brashares

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth. — Ann Brashares

I like that you let yourself be surprised — Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares Quotes About Fall

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. — Ann Brashares

I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may. — Ann Brashares

There are some people who fall in love over and over. — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Ann Brashares Famous Quotes And Sayings

The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it. — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it. — Ann Brashares

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

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly. — Ann Brashares

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? — Ann Brashares

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. — Ann Brashares

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose. — Ann Brashares

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 sight—at least as the normally experienced them. — Ann Brashares

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. — Ann Brashares

She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination. — Ann Brashares

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member. — Ann Brashares

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid. — Ann Brashares

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible — Ann Brashares

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain. — Ann Brashares

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions. — Ann Brashares

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand. — Ann Brashares

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach. — Ann Brashares

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. — Ann Brashares

And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love — Ann Brashares

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what. — Ann Brashares

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy. — Ann Brashares

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme. — Ann Brashares

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort. — Ann Brashares

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore. — Ann Brashares

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her. — Ann Brashares

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again. — Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. — Ann Brashares

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress? — Ann Brashares

There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well. — Ann Brashares

What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by my own fears and wants. But who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens. — Ann Brashares

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Everything good requires sacrifices. — Ann Brashares

You should find him because he loves you. — Ann Brashares

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 — Ann Brashares

Lena always described how she dreaded and mourned things before they even happened. Carmen was beginning to suspect that she was permitting herself to mourn this long separation only now that it was over. — Ann Brashares

All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do. — Ann Brashares

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. — Ann Brashares

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. — Ann Brashares

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at. — Ann Brashares

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. — Ann Brashares

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care. — Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly. — Ann Brashares

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is. — Ann Brashares

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? — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison. — Ann Brashares

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio. — Ann Brashares

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions. — Ann Brashares

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable. — Ann Brashares

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

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. — Ann Brashares

How many times could you give up on someone you loved? — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to. — Ann Brashares

He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not? — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go. — Ann Brashares

Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock. — Ann Brashares

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. — Ann Brashares

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear. — Ann Brashares

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need. — Ann Brashares

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it. — Ann Brashares

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny — Ann Brashares

But like everything else, love changed. — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever. — Ann Brashares

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake. — Ann Brashares

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it. — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong. — Ann Brashares

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't. — Ann Brashares

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. — Ann Brashares

Life Lessons by Ann Brashares

1. Ann Brashares' work emphasizes the importance of friendship, loyalty, and communication in relationships. She also emphasizes the power of storytelling to bring people together and to help them understand each other better. Lastly, her work celebrates the beauty and strength of female relationships, showing how they can be a source of support and growth.