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

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

But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road

Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once a year.

—Victor Borge

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.

—Shannon L. Alder

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went