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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.

E. Lockhart

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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
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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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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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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 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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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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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 swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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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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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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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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