E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?
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White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.
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Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.
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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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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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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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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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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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Be a little kinder than you have to.
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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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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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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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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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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.
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8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.
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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.