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21 " My mom once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: the ones who love their high school years and the ones who spend the next decade recovering from them. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, she said.But something did kill her, and I’m not stronger. So go figure; maybe there’s a third kind of person: the ones who never recover from high school at all. "
― Julie Buxbaum , Tell Me Three Things
22 " you make me want to know what goes on in that head of yours. I'll be honest: I'm not usually interested in the contents of others people's heads. My own is work enough. "
23 " But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's poetry. "
24 " Last night, we IM'd so late, I fell asleep with my computer on my lap and woke to his words dinging on my screen. Three things, he said: (1) good morning, (2) I have keybord marks on my face. slept on the "sdfg." (3) you leave in 24 hours, and I'm going to miss you. "
25 " I know that love is not finite. "
26 " Maybe home doesn have to be a place. "
27 " I hate the word “bitch.” I do. Using the B-word makes me feel like a bad feminist, but sometimes there is no other word. "
28 " Time does not heal all wounds, no matter how many drugstore sympathy cards hastily scrawled by distant relatives promise this to be true. "
29 " SN: I'm a righty in all the things. ALL THE THINGS.Me: Was that an attempt at innuendo?SN: your use of the word "attempt" suggests that I failed.Me: #innuendofailureSN: I just said the word "innuendo" a bunch of times in my head and now its lost all meaning. innuendo. innuendo. innuendo. innuendo.Me: Word ruined for me forever.SN: ruinuendo.Me: You are a dork.SN: yes, yes I am. Good that you find this out now. "
30 " All the tattoos I would get if I were the sort of person who had the nerve to get tattoos, which I am decidedly not. Instead, I'm the kind of person who has spent hours debating said theoretical tattoos, despite my crippling fears of both needles and long-term commitment. "
31 " In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged. Over email and text, though, I am given those few additional beats I need to be the better, edited version of myself. To "
32 " Everything passes, Jessie. Remember that. What feels huge today will feel small tomorrow, "
33 " Sometimes, when Scarlett says I'm strong, I think she really means I'm numb. "
34 " Exactly, You get it. I am who I am, whoever that may be now. "
35 " Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they’re only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost. "
36 " Suddenly, everything seems irrevocably broken in that way it can in the middle of the night when you are alone. "
37 " the only viable option is to Sherlock the shit out of this. "
38 " In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged. "
39 " Liam's hands are curled into fists, as if he is ready to throw punches right in the middle of IHOP, which is of course a dumb place to fight. There are children here, and polyester booths, and smiley-face pancakes. Multiple kinds of syrup. Some of the drinks even come with maraschino cherries. "
40 " I’ve never seen you so animated. It’s kind of adorable,” Theo says. "