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Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Ann Brashares

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”

“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”

“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. ”

“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”

“We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If we think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.”

“Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended. ”

“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”

“Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.”

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Book Keywords:

unconditional-love, love, contentment, family, life, satisfaction, memory, agape

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