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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.

E. Lockhart

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
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
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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Feeling Friend Good Likes Nbored Opposite Speak
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
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
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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Aaming Cake Cute Love
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
Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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Afraid Always Fear
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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Guy Heart Mean
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
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
We should not accept an evil we can change.
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Accepting Evil Should
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
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
…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

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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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