Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
E. LOCKHARTI 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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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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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she’d had an impact. She wasn’t a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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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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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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