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“Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor,’” he said. “‘I see the better way and approve it; I follow the worse.’ Publius Ovidius Naso.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress

“Through all her years of knowing him, this is what she learned that night. He was an unhappy man. And unhappy men are dangerous.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress

“Seneca’s line “Let the wickedness escape . . . for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
― Karen Mack, Freud's Mistress

“She wanted his profession of feelings to do the trick. She really did. She knew he wanted that too. Whether he spoke the truth or not, he thought he could make her feel better, and he really, really wanted to. But it wasn't what she needed. Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Fine, blood was thicker than water. But friendship, it struck Tibby, was thicker than both.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Some girls couldn’t stand being alone. Bridget was different. She went to movies, restaurants, even parties by herself. She loved her three friends above all other things, but she’d rather be alone than cling to people she didn’t care about.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“She could sit here and cry for as long as she liked. She could crawl under the desk. She could run around in the parking lot. She could live big. She could make herself to do things that were hard. She could.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“Whenever you did something because “life is too short not to,” you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“Intimacy came faster when a person wore their pain and poor luck for all to see.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“a good mother doesn’t just obey the wishes of her selfish heart. A good mother does what she believes is the best thing for her child. Sometimes they are the same. This time they are different.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“Clearly this wasn’t the kind of household where they ate steak every night. And so Tibby chewed the meat with as much vigor as was possible for a girl who had been a vegetarian since she was nine.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“Sometimes trust felt like the worst gift in the world.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“The real lesson embodied in Katherine’s three-year-old frame was the opposite: Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“Lena felt that all pretty faces were all alike—straight, even, regular. It was the ugliness, the sadness that set them apart. Lena couldn’t find that much objective ugliness in hers. But the sadness was apparent.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood

“teenagers and toddlers were very much the same. They both liked to leave their mother, so long as their mother did not move.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“she spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Lena remembered the old adage about knowing whether you’d chosen the right career by how you felt on Sunday night.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“On that fateful night they’d had sex, it seemed to her that she’d fallen asleep one person and woken up another. She couldn’t remember the hows and whys of who she used to be. It was bewildering. Like hypnosis or a magic spell or a dream that had broken on her waking.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“There are some people who fall in love over and over.” Tibby nodded, understanding the particular melancholy as it revealed itself on Lena’s face. “And there are others who can only seem to do it once.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Heaven is to live a life of freedom,”
― Sandra Gulland, The Shadow Queen

“I had a sinister premonition of how embarrassing an homme fatal could be when his charms are no longer fatal to you.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“I went to the window and looked out at the September evening. Though still hot with the vanished sun, the dusk, with its suggestion of autumn and nights drawing in, sent shivers of excitement up and down my spine. I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it. I felt a vague, melancholy sensation running through me, not at all unpleasant.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“this must be part of some pathetic fallacy, whereby if you fall in love with one man, all men instantly become desirable, whether they actually are or not.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“It’s amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don’t know; it’s only the people you do know who confuse you.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“If his wife doesn’t want him, I certainly don’t, was my way of putting it.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“As he returned to his duties with a satisfied waddle, I couldn’t resist reminding her that she hadn’t answered his question. “Do you love him?” “I told you: you can make yourself love anybody”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what’s yours until you’ve thrown it away.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's