Knowing where she was in the ...

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.
 Ann Brashares

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
 Ann Brashares
I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.
 Ann Brashares
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
 Ann Brashares
Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.
 Ann Brashares
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.
 Ann Brashares