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.
E. LOCKHARTLove 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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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
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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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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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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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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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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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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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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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