Ann Brashares Quotes

It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?

He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

It's not fun to watch someone that you used to love kind of go down.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

I spent the rest of the day doing little more than that. I skipped dinner. I shed a few tears. But mostly, I just sat on my bed thinking and growing more and more depressed. I also discovered the only thing worse than imagining Dimitri and Tasha together was remembering when he and I had been together. He would never touch me again like that, never kiss me again.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.