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Always do what you’re afraid to do.

E. Lockhart

…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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Girl Powerful Sweet
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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Feeling Friend Good Likes Nbored Opposite Speak
She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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Anymore Cry Feels
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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Being Level Movies True
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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Sick Strong Thinking
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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Guy Heart Mean
Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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Broken Heart Thinking
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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Enough People Warning
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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People Philosophical Thinking
It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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Broken Inside Shattered Something
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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Hair Heart Mother
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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Astonishment Hours Should
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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Aaming Cake Cute Love
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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Girl Jealous Life
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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Rooms Seats Winner
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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People Stuff Waiting

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

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