…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.
E. LOCKHARTI don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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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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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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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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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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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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