Ann Brashares Quotes

In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

I was adored once too.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

Those whose deeds have once incurred our hatred, can never become entitled to our regard; nor can those who have once merited our affection ever after absolutely cancel their claim.

...we must forgive him who repents, and asketh pardon for what is past; having first taken caution for the time to come

I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.

Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.

Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.