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.
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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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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 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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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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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There’s something about seeing a guy’s feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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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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