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Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him. "Not seriously." "Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?" "Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.

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Strong, Thinking, Hands

"Real Live Boyfriends". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

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Retaliation

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.8, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

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Summer, Morning, Block

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.72, Hot Key Books

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I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.

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Mad, Parent, Tipping

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

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Cutting, People, Forgiving

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.174, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

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Rooms, Winner, Seats

E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.68, Delacorte Press

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How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

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Orange, Sparkle, Madness

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.31, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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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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Hate, Book, Character

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.19, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

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Sweet, Dark, White

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I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

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Thinking, Trying, Institutions

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Always do what you're afraid to do.

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Fear

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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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White, People, Tree

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.11, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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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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Life, Girl, Jealous

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Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said. “Don’t you want it?” “Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.” “Why?” Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?” “Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said. “So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.

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Coffee, Love Is, Cake

E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.194, Delacorte Press

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I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

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Thinking, Might, One For Me

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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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Girl, Breakup, Love You

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.49, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

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Powerful, People, Secret

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

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Like You, Enough, Over It

E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.96, Delacorte Press

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Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

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Levels, Should, Being True

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.

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Heart, Mean, Guy

E. Lockhart (2009). “The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon--and Me, Ruby Oliver”, p.144, Delacorte Press

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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

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Heart, Thinking, Broken

E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.153, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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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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Thinking, Ideas, Trying

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver”, p.198, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

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Cry, Feels

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.217, Hot Key Books

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There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

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Years, Hot, Shapes

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.143, Hot Key Books

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