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.
E. LOCKHARTThere’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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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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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.
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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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Always do what you’re afraid to do.
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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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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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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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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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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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She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
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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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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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