Ann Brashares

Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. - ...

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch ...

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautifu ...

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportu ...

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and want ...

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daug ...

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless an ...

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love ...