"What if people knew they were recycled? Would it change anything?" -Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory

"You promised me. I love you. I won't give up on you." -My Name is Memory 

"The people I find laughably insane, Bailey seems to find the most interesting." -Tibby, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 

"I think if you have a not-totally satisfied childhood, as a writer, you go back over it again and again until you get it right. Then you can move on to other stuff." -Ann Brashares 

"There was a significant epoch in our lives when we organized our lives around a pair of pants we shared. Really, pants. We called them the Traveling Pants, and according to our mythology, they had the power to keep us together when we were apart." -Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -Albert Camus 

"Love was the best padding anyone could have." -Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants 

Carmen let out a breath. "These are magic pants." -Ann Brashares, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do." -Elizabeth Bowen

"There was no moment that couldn't be rewritten and revised in the future." -Ann Brashares, The Last Summer (Of You and Me).