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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.

E. Lockhart

Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Love Someone Young
Always do what you’re afraid to do. … I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
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Sick Strong Thinking
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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Hair Heart Mother
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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Lying Philosophical Trying
If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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Enemies Enemy Needs
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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Hot Shapes Years
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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People Stuff Waiting
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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Astonishment Hours Should
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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Junk Likes Want
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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Ambition May Tomatoes
Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Broken Heart Thinking
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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Madness Orange Sparkle
She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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Anymore Cry Feels
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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Crazy Giving People Sometimes Up
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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Destroy Giving Love Power
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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Being Level Movies True

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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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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