Ann Brashares

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

We teach people how to treat us.

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.