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.
E. LOCKHARTNever take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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There’s something about seeing a guy’s feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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