Ann Brashares Quotes

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don't know yet which way the door will swing.

Sometimes it boils down to a move or two and that makes all the difference.

'Australian Rules' was my moment of truth.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.

A turning point in modern history.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.