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
Showing posts with label Ann Brashares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann Brashares. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
i am loyal to who we are and what we have. i am worshipful of my sisters and worshipful of our sisterhood ...
Part one of two for the evening, since I'm at the limit on tag characters with this one. Most of the quotes are from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5), with other quotes and song lyrics mixed in.
If you be my soft and sweet,
I'll be your strong and steady,
You be my glass of wine,
I'll be your shot of whiskey,
You be my sunny day,
I'll be your shade tree
You be my honeysuckle,
I'll be your honey bee.
-"Honey Bee" by Blake Shelton
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
-Oscar Wilde
"I can be bratty and tempestuous, but I am loyal above all. I am loyal to who we are and what we have. I am worshipful of my sisters and worshipful of our sisterhood."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"She's such a force you forget she gets injured. You'll see her stagger and realize she needs help long before she does. Your heart goes out to her. She doesn't know how to feel her own pain, but she can feel yours."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Growing up is hard on a friendship. There's no revelation in that. I remember my mom once told me that a good family is built for leaving, because that is what children must do. And I've wondered many times, is that alsow hat a good friendship is supposed to be built for? ... We have no idea how to cope with the leaving. And I'm probably the worst of all. If you need a picture, picture this: me putting my hands over my eyes, pretending the leaving isn't happening, waiting for us all to be together again."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"In some way she didn't like to admit, Lena was always waiting for a call. Not from the people who were always calling, but from the ones who never did."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"It was the same thing almost every time Eric came home from someplace or even just walked back into the room where she was. She felt something, some little clap inside her head like a distant echo of the thunderous knock she had felt when she'd seen him the first time."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Suddenly her legs took root and her arms grew into long and slender branches. Apollo reached the laurel tree, and, still enamored with Daphne, held the tree in a special place in his heart."
-Encyclopedia Mythica
"She existedd in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
But why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
-"A Perfectly Good Heart" by Taylor Swift
If you be my soft and sweet,
I'll be your strong and steady,
You be my glass of wine,
I'll be your shot of whiskey,
You be my sunny day,
I'll be your shade tree
You be my honeysuckle,
I'll be your honey bee.
-"Honey Bee" by Blake Shelton
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
-Oscar Wilde
"I can be bratty and tempestuous, but I am loyal above all. I am loyal to who we are and what we have. I am worshipful of my sisters and worshipful of our sisterhood."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"She's such a force you forget she gets injured. You'll see her stagger and realize she needs help long before she does. Your heart goes out to her. She doesn't know how to feel her own pain, but she can feel yours."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Growing up is hard on a friendship. There's no revelation in that. I remember my mom once told me that a good family is built for leaving, because that is what children must do. And I've wondered many times, is that alsow hat a good friendship is supposed to be built for? ... We have no idea how to cope with the leaving. And I'm probably the worst of all. If you need a picture, picture this: me putting my hands over my eyes, pretending the leaving isn't happening, waiting for us all to be together again."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"In some way she didn't like to admit, Lena was always waiting for a call. Not from the people who were always calling, but from the ones who never did."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"It was the same thing almost every time Eric came home from someplace or even just walked back into the room where she was. She felt something, some little clap inside her head like a distant echo of the thunderous knock she had felt when she'd seen him the first time."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
"Suddenly her legs took root and her arms grew into long and slender branches. Apollo reached the laurel tree, and, still enamored with Daphne, held the tree in a special place in his heart."
-Encyclopedia Mythica
"She existedd in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."
-from Sisterhood Everlasting (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 5) by Ann Brashares
But why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
-"A Perfectly Good Heart" by Taylor Swift
Saturday, July 30, 2011
where there is great love, there are always wishes ...
"In the summer, the song sings itself."
-William Carlos Williams
"The past felt fragile to her But the past was set, right? It couldn't be changed. Why did she feel such a need to protect it?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"She didn't want to leave the place where Kostos could find her. An on a deeper level, she didn't want to put more distance -- in time or in space -- between now and the time when he'd loved her. She didn't want to become a different girl from the one whom he had loved."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Lena too had been abandoned by the person she thought loved her best of all. And without meaning to or wanting to, she harbored a passive, unquenchable hope that someday he would come for her."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather
"It was one of those morning when you come to terms with a strange new reality. You ask yourself, Did I dream that? Did i actually do that? Did he really say that? Reality comes back in bits and pieces, and you experience the novelty of it all over again. You wonder, Will this day and night and tomorrow and all the rest of the days be different because of what happened last night?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. for the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There was something vaguely enchanted about that time. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made the impossible to regain. Not all of that spirit was gone. She still had it, but she had a more tempered version. That time with Eric in Baja had been both the height of the magic and its calamitous end. He had managed to inspire both. She was a bit more fragile now. Or no. maybe she was less fragile. Maybe she had come to terms with her injuries and knew how to protect them. she was more self-protective, that was true."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by 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."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
Hear melodies are sweet,
but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes
Play on
-John Keats
"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."
-Abraham Maslow
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
-Norman Mailer
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Victor Hugo
"Like before, she was laid open by a glimpse of intimacy, and when she tried to find it again, there was no one and nothing there. Eric offered, whether he meant to or not, some giant idea of love. But she only grasped it long enough to know her poverty. He pushed her to destroy herself. He made her want and then gave her no satisfaction. Why did he do this to her? Why did she let him? how could she give herself away like this, even after she'd already learned such a bitter lesson?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"You made me believe in you and then you let me down. Is that how it is with you? Do you let people get close just so you can disappoint them?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"I had this idea that if I could make you happy, then I would be happy, too."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"The only true paradise is paradise lost."
-Marcel Proust
"Sometimes you hung up the phone and felt the bruising of your heart. It hurt now and it would hurt more later. The conversation was too unsatisfying to continue and yet you couldn't stand for it to end."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"There was desire, no question. What else? Would she have continued to love him if he had continued to be available to her? Yes. The answer came before she finished thinking the question. Yes. there was a tie when he loved her and she loved him and they both believed they could be together. Indeed, such a time it was, it had effectively wrecked all the rest of her times. But could she have gotten over Kostos if he hadn't been taken from her so forcibly?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She watched him with a surprising little thrill in her stomach and waited for him to notice her. How often did she want that? Not often. What she really wanted, she informed herself, was for him to look at her in a particular way. ... She wanted him to give her the look, the slightly extended appraisal that would drain him of his mystery and transform him into a regular person."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
-Steven Wright
"Was she really capable of forgetting him? Was that what she should be striving for? She wasn't sure she wanted to be striving for that. How disorienting it felt. She wasn't sure she wanted to be the forgetting type, even if she could be. If she forgot Kostos, she feared she'd forget most of herself along with him."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Now she wanted it. She had stayed up all night working and thinking and studying, and it had culminated in her wanting it. ... In some ways, it had been easier not wanting it. But the wanting felt good. Even if she didn't get it. Wanting was what made you a person, and she was glad to feel like a person again."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
-Vernon Law
"Lena had forgotten about forgetting Kostos. That was how she knew. When your remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. The thing that reminded Lena about Kostos came not from any movement in her brain (which would have constituted a failure to forget) ... It was simple. When she saw Kostos, she remembered him."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"As she said goodbye to Peter, she suddenly felt sad for him. he would do this same thing again. At some other place with some other misguided girl. He was already looking forward, shaking off the past -- a past that now included her."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She remembered when she was around four or five asking Carmen if she believed the wish Tibby had made over her birthday candles would come true. 'Yeah, if you wish for something that could actually happen,' Carmen had said philosophically."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She wondered about him. Had he ever really been able to love her? Did she really love him? There was undoubtedly something beautiful in longing and wishing. Their love story stayed perfect because they couldn't have it. But could he love her imperfection? Would he accept the fact that she wasn't always beautiful? Could he allow imperfection in himself? Would he give up being lovable for her sake? They had their imagined love. It had been wrenching and beautiful. But she now wondered whether either of them had ever had the stomach for the real thing."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
-William Carlos Williams
"The past felt fragile to her But the past was set, right? It couldn't be changed. Why did she feel such a need to protect it?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"She didn't want to leave the place where Kostos could find her. An on a deeper level, she didn't want to put more distance -- in time or in space -- between now and the time when he'd loved her. She didn't want to become a different girl from the one whom he had loved."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Lena too had been abandoned by the person she thought loved her best of all. And without meaning to or wanting to, she harbored a passive, unquenchable hope that someday he would come for her."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa Cather
"It was one of those morning when you come to terms with a strange new reality. You ask yourself, Did I dream that? Did i actually do that? Did he really say that? Reality comes back in bits and pieces, and you experience the novelty of it all over again. You wonder, Will this day and night and tomorrow and all the rest of the days be different because of what happened last night?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. for the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There was something vaguely enchanted about that time. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made the impossible to regain. Not all of that spirit was gone. She still had it, but she had a more tempered version. That time with Eric in Baja had been both the height of the magic and its calamitous end. He had managed to inspire both. She was a bit more fragile now. Or no. maybe she was less fragile. Maybe she had come to terms with her injuries and knew how to protect them. she was more self-protective, that was true."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by 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."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
Hear melodies are sweet,
but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes
Play on
-John Keats
"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."
-Abraham Maslow
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
-Norman Mailer
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Victor Hugo
"Like before, she was laid open by a glimpse of intimacy, and when she tried to find it again, there was no one and nothing there. Eric offered, whether he meant to or not, some giant idea of love. But she only grasped it long enough to know her poverty. He pushed her to destroy herself. He made her want and then gave her no satisfaction. Why did he do this to her? Why did she let him? how could she give herself away like this, even after she'd already learned such a bitter lesson?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"You made me believe in you and then you let me down. Is that how it is with you? Do you let people get close just so you can disappoint them?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"I had this idea that if I could make you happy, then I would be happy, too."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"To brave the undertow, we had learned to hold hands."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Girls In Pants (Book 3) by Ann Brashares
"The only true paradise is paradise lost."
-Marcel Proust
"Sometimes you hung up the phone and felt the bruising of your heart. It hurt now and it would hurt more later. The conversation was too unsatisfying to continue and yet you couldn't stand for it to end."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"There was desire, no question. What else? Would she have continued to love him if he had continued to be available to her? Yes. The answer came before she finished thinking the question. Yes. there was a tie when he loved her and she loved him and they both believed they could be together. Indeed, such a time it was, it had effectively wrecked all the rest of her times. But could she have gotten over Kostos if he hadn't been taken from her so forcibly?"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She watched him with a surprising little thrill in her stomach and waited for him to notice her. How often did she want that? Not often. What she really wanted, she informed herself, was for him to look at her in a particular way. ... She wanted him to give her the look, the slightly extended appraisal that would drain him of his mystery and transform him into a regular person."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."
-Steven Wright
"Was she really capable of forgetting him? Was that what she should be striving for? She wasn't sure she wanted to be striving for that. How disorienting it felt. She wasn't sure she wanted to be the forgetting type, even if she could be. If she forgot Kostos, she feared she'd forget most of herself along with him."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Now she wanted it. She had stayed up all night working and thinking and studying, and it had culminated in her wanting it. ... In some ways, it had been easier not wanting it. But the wanting felt good. Even if she didn't get it. Wanting was what made you a person, and she was glad to feel like a person again."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
-Vernon Law
"Lena had forgotten about forgetting Kostos. That was how she knew. When your remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. The thing that reminded Lena about Kostos came not from any movement in her brain (which would have constituted a failure to forget) ... It was simple. When she saw Kostos, she remembered him."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"As she said goodbye to Peter, she suddenly felt sad for him. he would do this same thing again. At some other place with some other misguided girl. He was already looking forward, shaking off the past -- a past that now included her."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She remembered when she was around four or five asking Carmen if she believed the wish Tibby had made over her birthday candles would come true. 'Yeah, if you wish for something that could actually happen,' Carmen had said philosophically."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
"She wondered about him. Had he ever really been able to love her? Did she really love him? There was undoubtedly something beautiful in longing and wishing. Their love story stayed perfect because they couldn't have it. But could he love her imperfection? Would he accept the fact that she wasn't always beautiful? Could he allow imperfection in himself? Would he give up being lovable for her sake? They had their imagined love. It had been wrenching and beautiful. But she now wondered whether either of them had ever had the stomach for the real thing."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Forever In Blue (Book 4) by Ann Brashares
Friday, July 29, 2011
she could live big. she could make herself do things that were hard ...
Finished rereading all the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books this week and watching the movies. Here are quotes from the first two books and the first movie ...
"It felt like nothing would ever be the same again. Some things never would be. But we knew no matter how far we traveled on our own paths, somehow we would always find our way back to each other. And with that, we could get through anything."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie)
"The truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us, ya know? Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things ... making those count for more than the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it ... and that's all we can ask for."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie)
"Luck never gives: it only lends."
-Ancient Chinese Proverb
"Love your pals. Love yourself."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end."
-Proverb
"Lena was suspicious of many things. But she had earned her suspicions about boys. Lena knew boys: They never looked beyond your looks. They pretended to be your friend to get you to trust them, and as soon as you trusted them, they went in for the grope. They pretended to want to work on a history project or volunteer on your blood drive committee to get your attention. But as soon as they got it through their skulls that you didn't want to go out with them, they suddenly weren't interested in time lines or dire blood shortages. Worst of all, on occasion they even went out with one of your best friends to get close to you, and broke that same best friend's heart when the truth came out."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bridget fixed her eyes on him. Look up, you. He did. Then he looked away so fast it was almost gratifying. He noticed her, all right."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"He was watching her. He didn't see her see him seeing her yet, and she didn't want him to. She made it a point never to be coy, but she wanted him to be able to watch her if he wanted to. He looked mellow from sun and running."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bridge needed a single focus. She had too much energy, she knew, and a fair amount of raw, undisciplined talent. At almost every point in her life, she needed one simple, unified goal to keep her going forward fast. Otherwise there was the possibility of going backward where she did not want to go."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"'Bridget is singled-minded in achieving her goals,' Dr. Lambert had written. 'Single-minded to the point of recklessness.'"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Wish for what you want. Work for what you need."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"When we get back, do you think you could give me a few pointers on how to be a normal person? I don't seem to get it."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. ... Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks -- the traffic signal that said 'Walk' the second you got there -- and the downticks -- the itchy tag at the back of your collar -- that happened to every person in the course of a day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe this was all you could ask."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bee's life had been remade at one time. There were fault lines from hen. Bee sprinted along in a torrent of activity, but once in a while, something unexpected slammed her hard. It left Bee slow and uncertain. She fretted. She wasn't good at putting herself back together. Bridge was like a toddler sometimes. She grasped for power. She demanded it. But when she got her way, she was left only with herself, and that terrified her. ... She needed to know someone was looking out for her. She needed someone to promise her that the world wasn't empty."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"What happened in front of my friends felt real. 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."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"There were a million little lines of shading that we couldn't convey so easily. They were the subtle things, and understanding them, even knowing when you missed them, was what separated other friends from real friends, like we were."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
-Michael Faraday
"The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget when one of us starts and the other one stops."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"'I think about the person I used to be, and she seems so far away. She walked fast, I walk slow. She stayed up late and got up early, I sleep. I feel like if she gets any farther away, I won't be connected to her at all anymore.' ... 'Do you want ... to stay connected to her?' Tibby's words were slow and quiet, seeming to make their way to Bridge one at a time. Bee had made every effort to change herself this year. Tibby quietly suspected she knew the reason. Bee couldn't outrun her troubles, so she'd entered her own version of the witness protection program.. Tibby knew how it was to lose someone you loved. And she also knew how tempting it was to cast off that sad, ruined part of yourself like a sweater you'd outgrown. 'Do I want to?' Bee thought about the words carefuly. Some people (like Tibby, for instance) tended to listen in a muffled, sheltered way. Bee was the opposite. 'I think I do.'"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
-Nelson Mandela
"Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"How did you separate attraction from love? And how could you possibly think you loved someone you barely knew and hadn't seen in almost nine months and quite possibly would never see again?"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
-Winston Churchill
"There was a strange thing about her memory, and she had noticed it before this. When she was eleven and the terrible stuff had happened, her brain had sort of erased itself. Everything from that time or before she'd either forgotten completely or remembered as though it had happened to somebody else."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by 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."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
-Ralph Hodgson
"Maybe she would see him in the next five minutes. Maybe she would never see him again. She was desperately afraid of both possibilities at the same time."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"'Lena, I know how you are.' Lena wished she knew. 'How am I?' 'If I come close, you run away. If I stay still then maybe, slowly, you might come.'"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
What is that you express in your eyes?
It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
-Walt Whitman
"She could sit here and cry for as long as she liked. She could crawl under the desk. She could run around in the paring lot. She could live big. She could make herself do things that were hard. She could. For once, Tibby was right smack in the middle, and she could see a lot better from here."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Any place at any time, if you are thinking of me, you can be sure that I am thinking of you."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"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."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath it. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening
"Carmen wondered at the silence to create a stronger bond, even, than thousands and thousands of words."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"It felt like nothing would ever be the same again. Some things never would be. But we knew no matter how far we traveled on our own paths, somehow we would always find our way back to each other. And with that, we could get through anything."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie)
"The truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us, ya know? Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things ... making those count for more than the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it ... and that's all we can ask for."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (movie)
"Luck never gives: it only lends."
-Ancient Chinese Proverb
"Love your pals. Love yourself."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end."
-Proverb
"Lena was suspicious of many things. But she had earned her suspicions about boys. Lena knew boys: They never looked beyond your looks. They pretended to be your friend to get you to trust them, and as soon as you trusted them, they went in for the grope. They pretended to want to work on a history project or volunteer on your blood drive committee to get your attention. But as soon as they got it through their skulls that you didn't want to go out with them, they suddenly weren't interested in time lines or dire blood shortages. Worst of all, on occasion they even went out with one of your best friends to get close to you, and broke that same best friend's heart when the truth came out."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bridget fixed her eyes on him. Look up, you. He did. Then he looked away so fast it was almost gratifying. He noticed her, all right."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"He was watching her. He didn't see her see him seeing her yet, and she didn't want him to. She made it a point never to be coy, but she wanted him to be able to watch her if he wanted to. He looked mellow from sun and running."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bridge needed a single focus. She had too much energy, she knew, and a fair amount of raw, undisciplined talent. At almost every point in her life, she needed one simple, unified goal to keep her going forward fast. Otherwise there was the possibility of going backward where she did not want to go."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"'Bridget is singled-minded in achieving her goals,' Dr. Lambert had written. 'Single-minded to the point of recklessness.'"
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Wish for what you want. Work for what you need."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"When we get back, do you think you could give me a few pointers on how to be a normal person? I don't seem to get it."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. ... Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks -- the traffic signal that said 'Walk' the second you got there -- and the downticks -- the itchy tag at the back of your collar -- that happened to every person in the course of a day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. Maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe this was all you could ask."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Bee's life had been remade at one time. There were fault lines from hen. Bee sprinted along in a torrent of activity, but once in a while, something unexpected slammed her hard. It left Bee slow and uncertain. She fretted. She wasn't good at putting herself back together. Bridge was like a toddler sometimes. She grasped for power. She demanded it. But when she got her way, she was left only with herself, and that terrified her. ... She needed to know someone was looking out for her. She needed someone to promise her that the world wasn't empty."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"What happened in front of my friends felt real. 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."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"There were a million little lines of shading that we couldn't convey so easily. They were the subtle things, and understanding them, even knowing when you missed them, was what separated other friends from real friends, like we were."
-from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) by Ann Brashares
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
-Michael Faraday
"The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget when one of us starts and the other one stops."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"'I think about the person I used to be, and she seems so far away. She walked fast, I walk slow. She stayed up late and got up early, I sleep. I feel like if she gets any farther away, I won't be connected to her at all anymore.' ... 'Do you want ... to stay connected to her?' Tibby's words were slow and quiet, seeming to make their way to Bridge one at a time. Bee had made every effort to change herself this year. Tibby quietly suspected she knew the reason. Bee couldn't outrun her troubles, so she'd entered her own version of the witness protection program.. Tibby knew how it was to lose someone you loved. And she also knew how tempting it was to cast off that sad, ruined part of yourself like a sweater you'd outgrown. 'Do I want to?' Bee thought about the words carefuly. Some people (like Tibby, for instance) tended to listen in a muffled, sheltered way. Bee was the opposite. 'I think I do.'"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
-Nelson Mandela
"Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"How did you separate attraction from love? And how could you possibly think you loved someone you barely knew and hadn't seen in almost nine months and quite possibly would never see again?"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
-Winston Churchill
"There was a strange thing about her memory, and she had noticed it before this. When she was eleven and the terrible stuff had happened, her brain had sort of erased itself. Everything from that time or before she'd either forgotten completely or remembered as though it had happened to somebody else."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by 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."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
-Ralph Hodgson
"Maybe she would see him in the next five minutes. Maybe she would never see him again. She was desperately afraid of both possibilities at the same time."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"'Lena, I know how you are.' Lena wished she knew. 'How am I?' 'If I come close, you run away. If I stay still then maybe, slowly, you might come.'"
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
What is that you express in your eyes?
It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
-Walt Whitman
"She could sit here and cry for as long as she liked. She could crawl under the desk. She could run around in the paring lot. She could live big. She could make herself do things that were hard. She could. For once, Tibby was right smack in the middle, and she could see a lot better from here."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Any place at any time, if you are thinking of me, you can be sure that I am thinking of you."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"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."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath it. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening
"Carmen wondered at the silence to create a stronger bond, even, than thousands and thousands of words."
-from The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, Book 2) by Ann Brashares
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