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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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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
Writer
New York City
New York
Emily Jenkins
Emily Lockhart
E. Lockhart
Philosophical
Situation
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People

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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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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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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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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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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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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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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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...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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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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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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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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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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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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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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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
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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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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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