A biography for Ann Brashareshasn’t been written yet.
“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”
“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”
“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”
“Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.”