I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
E. LOCKHARTSomeone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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They 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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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have 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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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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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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