Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
E. LOCKHARTAnd 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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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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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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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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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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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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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