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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a reg...more

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When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set ...more

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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an a...more

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a wal...more

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her...more

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You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's s...more

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I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people,...more

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If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

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I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

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Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

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Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around...more