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I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people—to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole… —Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
You have to be careful of girls that are too pretty, though. They hold a power that they never had to earn.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking I’m your average scumbag. It is not like that. I understand that by “moral” standards I am fucking up. It’s not that I’m heartless; I just know this type of situation is fixable. People always say that you can’t have your cake and eat it, too, but you can.
It’s funny—when you get what you want, it almost automatically decreases in value.
It’s funny how so many people end up finding such comfort, even contentment, in their misery.
But even if he did miss me he wasn’t saying he missed me, and even in the hypothetical scenario in which he was saying he missed me, how could I give him the time of day after what he’d done? It was a pointless question with the wrong answer, and the only thing that made sense was that I knew I had fallen in love with him—it was what had made these past months so horrific. People always talk about realizing they’re in love during the happy moments, but I think you realize it in the bad ones. The ones that knock you off center, scaring you when they prove that no matter what kind of logic is in
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People were always blaming everything on the economy. Why’s it so hard to get a job? The economy. Where’s my holiday bonus? The economy is bad this year. Why am I paying $6 for a container of yogurt? Because of the economy. Why won’t my wife suck my dick? The economy sucks.
It’s always boggled my mind the way the majority of individuals sit around waiting for the next event, then the next—subconsciously waiting for life to end.
everything inside me hurt so badly that I almost couldn’t breathe, much less defend my decision. I despised that it was summer again; it was just a reminder that it wasn’t going to be anything like last year. I knew I was supposed to feel happy, but the summer just seemed like something great that would happen to everybody else.
“You know what they say—charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.”
