Ann Brashares Quotes

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

Love will abide, take things in stride.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me

Love is not a victory march

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.