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.
E. LOCKHARTWe 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.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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