These guys, they were so sure of their places in life–so deeply confident of their merit and their future–they didn’t need any kind of front at all.
E. LOCKHARTEverything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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.
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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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We can’t know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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