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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.
E. Lockhart
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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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Emily Jenkins
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them, said Mr. Sutton. You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
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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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Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
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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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I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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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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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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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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I like to be direct. Okay, I said. But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages. I doubt it. Human interaction is not my strong point, I told him.
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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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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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...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise
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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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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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