They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.
E. LOCKHARTIt shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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…a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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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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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.
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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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