Shani Watson

“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting