Ann Brashares Quotes

I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is sacrifice.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I've met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.