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.
E. LOCKHARTOther people apologize and don’t mean t “Sorry, but you shouldn’t have…” or “Sorry, but I just didn’t…” They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.
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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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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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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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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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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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…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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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