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“Girls struggles with mixed messages: Be beautiful, but beauty is only skin deep. Be sexy, but not sexual. Be honest, but don’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Be independent, but be nice. Be smart, but not so smart you threaten boys.”
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Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
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Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight, but I believe in that click.”
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Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo
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“Liars know how to turn things around and make it seem like it’s all your fault.”
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“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like…finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself.”
— Candice Proctor, Whispers of Heaven
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“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via books-n-quotes)
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character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*
me:
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