Ann Brashares Quotes

I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

You really don’t know what you don’t know until you’re here. [The White House]

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

All that you can imagine you already know.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Don't read to remember; read to realize.