Part two ... :) More Sisterhood Everlasting, a Tigers quote or two, and some other lyrics and quotes.
"Grief was like a newborn, and the first three moths were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Somewhere she possessed the idea that if she was moving, the saddest images couldn't settle on her as heavily. It didn't really work. But being still was intolerable."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
-Winston Churchill
"'Someday,' he'd said ... The word has seemed like a precious gift at the time, a keepsake or an inheritance. She'd tucked it away and treasured it accordingly, waiting for the right time to cash it in."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Waiting and waiting. That was her thing. The word gave her an excuse to wait and do little else. The word wasn't so much a gift as a terminal virus with a long period of latency. In her hears eh thought he had meant it, but of course he hadn't. ... She had been pretending she'd more or less forgotten the whole episode, but she hadn't. She had still been a teenager at the time, he not much older, and that gave everybody an automatic out, didn't it? ... People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe because she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
-Bob Dylan
"It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that, unlike email, you couldn't obsessively reread what you'd written after you'd sent it. You couldn't attempt to unsend it. Once you'd sent it, it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you, but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you'd said more than words. YOU gave the object away, and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"I think you need to make this decision on your own. I think you need to know what you want and try to get it. That's the only thing you can do. The other part is not in your control."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"She had to have faith not just in trying, but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail? Was she strong enough not to?"
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting, you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely take makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"It was just one of those feelings you have. There’s rare times as an athlete where things start to slow down a little bit, and (you) just kind of seize the moment."
-Brennan Boesch
Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.
-Emily Dickinson
"'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"
-from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
And you cannot go on
Indefinitely being just an ordnary
decent egg.
We must be hatched or go bad.
-C.S. Lewis
"I think of your many beautiful traits, but also your fitfulness. I've watched you go through dozens of jobs, apartments, phones, plants, and obsessions. You would think that a voracious girl as yourself would have gone through dozens of boyfriends, dozens of lovers, but it occurred to me the other day that you haven't. You've had only one. You told me once that Eric was your touchstone, and I've thought of it many times. 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."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"(Her) suffering had been outside of their friendship, outside of their control. It didn't represent a failure of their bond. But (she) had kept it from them, and that represented a different kind of failure. She hadn't let them in at that darkest juncture in her life. They couldn't have prevented any of it, but they could have given her comfort and they hadn't. Why hadn't they? Why hadn't she let them? Because we aren't built for leaving, Carmen realized. (She) hadn't known how to leave them. There was no precedent."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"I've got a heart that appears to have been broken open. I feel hopeful where I am."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"But i know this. we're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how apart, we live in one another. We go on together."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
It’s such a funny thing
How nothing’s funny when it’s you
You tell ‘em what you mean
But they keep whiting out the truth
It’s like a work of art
That never gets to see the light
Keep you beneath the stars
Won’t let you touch the sky ...
I'm no beauty queen,
I'm just beautiful me
You've got every right
To a beautiful life
-"Who Says" by Selena Gomez
