Quotes from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.
-Annik Marchand”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you.
-Effie Kaligaris”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“What was it about Eric? He was handsome and talented, yeah. But lots of guys were. She had adored Billy Klein back in Alabama the summer before, and she had even felt attracted to him, but it wasn't like this. What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Don't open, don't climb, don't reach, and you will not fall. Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“I still think about him sometimes. I dream about him too. I try to remember what he looked like. It's hard to remember, though, either because of time or because of strong feelings. I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Él no escucharía sus palabras. Dudaba también de que fuera a escuchar su silencio.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“El la empujaba a autodestruirse. Hacía que ella deseara y luego no le daba ninguna satisfacción.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“She sat on the dock at the lake and watched the clouds thicken. She wished it would rain hard and long and clear everything away. Rain never came when you asked for it.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say “Storms suck!” —Johnny carson”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Patrick: I’m mad. SpongeBob: What’s the matter, Patrick? Patrick: I can’t see my forehead.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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