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. LOCKHARTEverything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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