Ann Brashares Quotes

Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?

When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the least sense to me. However, in reality, I fell in love at 45 and I am absolutely certain that my now husband is the only man in the world for me, a truth I find both ridiculous and uplifting.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

There is something like destiny. I don't really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.

Love stories thrive on hope.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

It is plain that we were meant to go together.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

There are people for everybody, and luckily, I found mine.

I'ma always stick to my roots, but whatever life brings, that's what is meant.

There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's searching to be found but, I think, it's not as if everything is going to be automatic. So, people could really be meant for each other and its goes awry; or they could have to learn or develop and grow up together. Grow to be right together.

The dog lasted. The marriage didn't. So it shows which relationship was meant to be.

I think music is my destiny. I want to commit myself for what God called me to do.

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.

Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

We are in love and meant to be together.

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.