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. LOCKHARTI sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they’ve done, without doing anything myself.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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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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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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