She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone.

Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

—Ann Brashares in My Name Is Memory

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 in Girls In Pants

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people. Once you knew them you mostly forgot about it.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

—Richard Bach

Some things can't be saved.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

—William Congreve

Love in the real world doesn't usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don't always get fairytale endings. People split up and move on.

—Richelle Mead in Succubus Shadows