But like everything else, love changed.

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

—Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants

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

The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

—Jay Crownover in Jet

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

—Harriet Lerner