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.
E. LOCKHARTHow was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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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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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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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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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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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.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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…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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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