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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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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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...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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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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...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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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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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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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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The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
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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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