How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
Ann BrasharesHealing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
Ann BrasharesShe knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.
Ann BrasharesI hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.
Ann Brashares