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See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

E. Lockhart

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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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New York City
New York
Emily Jenkins
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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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Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
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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 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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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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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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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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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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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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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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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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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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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
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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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