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Ann Brashares
"Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life." --
Source : FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013
Ann Brashares
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“For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.”
“In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.”
“Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.”
“Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw.”
“Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.”
Source : Tim Kimmel (2013). “Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home”, p.202, Multnomah
“One good turn deserves another.”
Source : Petronius Arbiter (1999). “The Satyricon”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA
“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
