Gabriella Rodrigues

“But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.”
― Lisa See, Shanghai Girls