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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
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People

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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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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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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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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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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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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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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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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...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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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