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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
E. Lockhart
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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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New York City
New York
Emily Jenkins
Emily Lockhart
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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.
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The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
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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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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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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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You are my girlfriend, whispered Matthew. You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight. -pg 126
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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.
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Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
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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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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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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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Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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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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Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
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We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
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