Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He’ll tolerate your junk.
E. LOCKHARTI don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.
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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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There’s something about seeing a guy’s feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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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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Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she’d had an impact. She wasn’t a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
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Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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Other people apologize and don’t mean t “Sorry, but you shouldn’t have…” or “Sorry, but I just didn’t…” They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.
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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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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don’t like me back, or who don’t like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they’ve done, without doing anything myself.
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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Because 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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A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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