Ann Brashares Quotes

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

But you built me dreams instead.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.