Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
E. LOCKHARTLove 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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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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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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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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…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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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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