It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
E. LOCKHARTThey 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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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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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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