Ann Brashares

Novelist

1967-03-06

Ann Brashares is an American novelist best known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series for young adult readers. She has also written novels for adults, including The Last Summer (of You and Me). Her fiction has been adapted for film and has reached an international readership.

Books by Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 1)
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My Name is Memory
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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 2)
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Quotes by Ann Brashares

In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
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She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.
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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.
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You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
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She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.
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Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
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Carmen: —I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.
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Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.
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Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.
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They were absolutely lovely, and in their presence, so was she.
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Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.
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What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
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He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
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Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
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Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
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They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.
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You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
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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.
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If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
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