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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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See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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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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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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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 will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.
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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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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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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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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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Always do what you're afraid to do.
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There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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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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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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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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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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