# Quote — Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

> Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. They were an essential kind of pants - jeans, naturally, blue but not that stiff, new blue you see so often on the first day of school.

- Author: [Ann Brashares](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares.md)
- Book: [The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants/once-upon-a-time

## More from this book

> She would just stay here holding Bailey's hand for all time, so Bailey wouldn't be afraid there wasn't enough of it.

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> Still, the Pants promised us there was time. Nothing would be lost. There was all year if we needed it. We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants and, together or apart, begin again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants/still-the-pants.md)

> "it's easier to be mad at the people you trust. Because you know they'll always love you, no matter what."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-brashares/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants/its-easier-to-be-mad.md)