E. Lockhart - The boyfriend list (2004)

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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

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I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

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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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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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Face it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.

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I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes... it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal—or completely shattered.

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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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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

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Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

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