Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
Ann BrasharesWe aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.
Ann BrasharesA lot of friendship is about practice, thatโs something Iโve learned as Iโve gotten older. Itโs not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, itโs really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
Ann Brashares