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Other 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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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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Hair Heart Mother
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
If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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Enemies Enemy Needs
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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Girl Jealous Life
Other 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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Apology Mean Sorry
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
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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Enough People Warning
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
Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Broken Heart Thinking
She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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Anymore Cry Feels
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
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
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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Fighting Girl Guy
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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Madness Orange Sparkle
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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Rooms Seats Winner
We should not accept an evil we can change.
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Accepting Evil Should
I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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might One Thinking Variety
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
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
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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Junk Likes Want
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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Being Level Movies True
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
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
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
Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Love Someone Young
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

Other 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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Other 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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