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.
E. LOCKHARTIf 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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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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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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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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…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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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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