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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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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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New York City
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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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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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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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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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It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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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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We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
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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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The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
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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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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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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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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 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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
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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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