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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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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
If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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Enemies Enemy Needs
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
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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Ends Impossible
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
…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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Girl Powerful Sweet
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.
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Afraid Always Fear
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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Rooms Seats Winner
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
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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People Philosophical Thinking
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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Fighting Girl Guy
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
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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Guy Merit Needs
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
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

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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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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