Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. LOCKHARTYou 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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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You 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.
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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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Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she’d had an impact. She wasn’t a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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