Ann Brashares Quotes

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

I don't know what love means.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

I don't know how I feel right now.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.