Ann Brashares Quotes

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

Okay I'll be honest girl I can't lie I miss you.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

I miss everything about you. Can't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through.

When I see ya baby girl, I miss feelin on ya. I miss everything that's real about ya and that's everything about ya, that's just how I feel about ya

Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he’d been gone less than a day, but I couldn’t get him or the ways he described love out of my head. “. . . a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.

She pulled away. “I missed you, Percy.” Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn’t really cover that.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.