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E. Lockhart
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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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New York City
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Emily Jenkins
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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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...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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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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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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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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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 suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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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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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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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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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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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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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
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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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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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