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.
E. LOCKHARTSomeone 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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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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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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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