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?
E. LOCKHARTThese 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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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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You 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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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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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