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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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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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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
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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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See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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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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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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