Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. LOCKHARTBecause on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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You can’t have an ending. It’s impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You’re never at the end until you die.
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8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn’t cheat on you, you will always know he’s capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.
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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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If you don’t want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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My problem is I can think whatever I think-girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah – but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they’re China. ‘Hello there! You’re so far away, I can’t get to you! Can you even hear me?
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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The opposite of the life where the girl can’t even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren’t even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
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You are my girlfriend,” whispered Matthew. ” You’re my girl and I’m your guy, and you’re my girl and I’m your guy. Let’s not fight.” -pg 126
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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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