“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
“I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.”
“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.”
“I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.”
“It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.”
“Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.”
“There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.”
“I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.”
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.”
“It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.”
“We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.”
“You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.”
“It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.”
“How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong?”
“But life’s never easy when you need it to be.”
“Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.”
“I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves.
There they go again.
Jiggle.
Jaggle.
I'm a mess.”
“I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.”
“but then you realize that this ‘whole package’ everyone’s looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.”
“Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.”
“[Wheel] rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be a part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. I have a theoru that the answers to all og life's major questions can be found in a John Mayer song.”
“Maybe it's just hart to see what's right in front of you while you're frantically searching for it.”
“Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.”
“Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?”
“I don’t know.”
“Feel like ice cream?”
“It’s, like, three degrees out.”
“That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.”
“But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.”
“No relationship is guaranteed to last forever. But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.
So just like that, I walk out of this life. And into the one I've been waiting for.”
“I have a theory that the answers to all of life’s major questions canbe found in a John Mayer song.”
“I wish it could stay like this forever, with the anticipation of everything. I know what it's like when you just need to be alone for a while and block out the world.
It's weird. How time can change something you thought would always stay the same.”
“But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.”
“The point of learning about history is so we can improve the future.”
“The glittery feeling. She’d named it because it felt to her as if her skin and everything beneath it briefly became shiny and jumpy and bubbly, as if glitter materialized inside her, then rose quickly through the layers of tissue that comprised her, momentarily sparkling all over the surface of her skin before dissipating into the air. Martha”
“You let the themes in your life become your beliefs, and you let those beliefs guide your behaviors.”
“I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.”
“God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.”
“I've seen this episode. This is the one where Sylvester eats Tweety.”
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