Ann Brashares Quotes

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.