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.
E. LOCKHARTShe doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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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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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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And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don’t like me back, or who don’t like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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