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.
E. LOCKHARTYou can’t have an ending. It’s impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You’re never at the end until you die.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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…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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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