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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.

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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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Hot Shapes Years
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
Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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Afraid Always Fear
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
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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Rooms Seats Winner
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
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
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
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
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
Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Love Someone Young
It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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Broken Inside Shattered Something
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
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
…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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Girl Powerful Sweet
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

It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.

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