Ann Brashares Quotes

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.