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f03e470	It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.	funny ed-fargo cool fearless	Francine Pascal
0d1aec9	He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind."	funny fearless modesty	Francine Pascal
ad312d0	When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.		Francine Pascal
0233fbc	I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.	seventeen sweet-sixteen sixteen sweet teens	Francine Pascal
747ec5f	Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.		Francine Pascal
55079d6	She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.		Francine Pascal
4b0ee9c	Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.		Francine Pascal
666edc2	Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.		Francine Pascal
f76d2c3	But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.		Francine Pascal
f90d77b	Pretty people do ugly things. It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her.	good-looking pretty-people	Francine Pascal
86a7e5d	The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.		Francine Pascal
4828c79	Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.		Francine Pascal
3deddf3	As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.	pathetic possibility perfect	Francine Pascal
9b219a8	Nature compensates for its mistakes.		Francine Pascal
0f34f85	If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.		Francine Pascal
af9554e	He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back. She was in his class; this was excellent. Maybe she'd call him a name if he struck up another conversation. Even curse him out. That might fun. God, he'd probably earn himself a restraining order if he tried to sit next to her. He was so tired of saccharine smiles an..	cloying hunched maladjusted-people saccharine wheelchair school	Francine Pascal
be04b2a	She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.	pavement splattered emotions	Francine Pascal
e35069a	She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never snea..	lies lessons subdue fragile	Francine Pascal
2ed5103	Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.		Francine Pascal
49c0617	Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot.		Francine Pascal
7a7356d	What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she -- and Rapunzel, frankly -- needed was a d..	ladder rapunzel rooms	Francine Pascal
143f035	I think I'm going to cut down on my dating,' Annie said. 'I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren't always the answer.	sweet-valley empty dating	Francine Pascal
1db9525	The thought of gaining weight was all she needed to lose her appetite completely. Not that Jessica - a model-slim, perfect size-six - ever had to worry about her weight.	weight-gain superficiality sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
c276969	Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares?		Francine Pascal
ccbfb7a	Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.		Francine Pascal
9aad97a	As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it ..	distance tomorrow alone walking	Francine Pascal
22a102c	Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.	sweet-valley single	Francine Pascal
3a4822a	In the midst of a full-blown disaster - with the house apparently self-destructing around them - Lila was calmly filing her nails.	filing nails sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
8f3ff2e	Ella is much younger. Maybe thirty. I don't know. And you certainly can't tell from the way she dresses. Middle of winter she finds a way to show her belly button. And she's got four hundred of these little elastic bands that can only pass for a skirt if you never move your legs. Top that with this unbelievable iridescent red hair and you've got one hot seventeen-year-old. At least that's what she thinks.	dressing mini-skirts redheads	Francine Pascal
1dedf50	He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn't matter that her wide blue eyes were narrowed or that her pretty mouth was twisted into a near snarl -- she was blatantly beautiful. It was kind of sick the way Ed was preoccupied with beautiful girls these days. He felt a little sorry for her. (He was also preoccupied with finding..	blending-in endearing lockers snarls pity school	Francine Pascal
07fc241	It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.		Francine Pascal
ea9fd36	Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.	oxygen veins milkshakes	Francine Pascal
8a3ab6a	That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.		Francine Pascal
d118858	Actually for a while Jessica had contemplated making a grand entrance wearing only the dress, thinking wickedly about how the sight of her cold, shivering body would prompt Nicholas to rush up and put his arms around her to warm her up. But evenings at this time of year were usually chilly, and she saw no reason to risk pneumonia just for a sympathy hug. She'd have to settle for throwing her coat off dramatically as she was being ushered in..	shiver teenage-girls sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
693cce2	Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.	sweet-valley fat	Francine Pascal
b34f978	She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine.	daydreaming disco mick-jagger sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
3bc38a0	David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!	ethnic sweet-valley insecurity	Francine Pascal
cccc073	After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica--and that certainly was how it looked--she would not stand in the way. She'd do the decent thing. Die.		Francine Pascal
a1581da	Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die.	dramatic phones teenage-girls sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
eea46e7	Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.' Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.	uncomfortable sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
b4934ff	His tightly fitting jeans were unmistakably French.	jeans tight sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
a26cd5e	Elizabeth had amnesia and her defenses were down. Bruce had tried to take advantage of her - what guy wouldn't? Unfortunately, she got her memory back just in time, ran right out of his house, and wrecked his plans for the evening.	rape attempt sweet-valley creep	Francine Pascal
adf5886	Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.	werewolves	Francine Pascal
0e20607	I just can't wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I've been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.	dancing leaving-home superficiality sweet-valley	Francine Pascal

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

Francine Pascal

0d1aec9

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind."

funny fearless modesty

Francine Pascal

ad312d0

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Francine Pascal

0233fbc

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

seventeen sweet-sixteen sixteen sweet teens

Francine Pascal

747ec5f

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Francine Pascal

55079d6

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Francine Pascal

4b0ee9c

Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.

Francine Pascal

666edc2

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Francine Pascal

f76d2c3

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

Francine Pascal

f90d77b

Pretty people do ugly things. It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her.

good-looking pretty-people

Francine Pascal

86a7e5d

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

Francine Pascal

4828c79

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

Francine Pascal

3deddf3

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

pathetic possibility perfect

Francine Pascal

9b219a8

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Francine Pascal

0f34f85

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

Francine Pascal

af9554e

He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back. She was in his class; this was excellent. Maybe she'd call him a name if he struck up another conversation. Even curse him out. That might fun. God, he'd probably earn himself a restraining order if he tried to sit next to her. He was so tired of saccharine smiles an..

cloying hunched maladjusted-people saccharine wheelchair school

Francine Pascal

be04b2a

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

pavement splattered emotions

Francine Pascal

e35069a

She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never snea..

lies lessons subdue fragile

Francine Pascal

2ed5103

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

Francine Pascal

49c0617

Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot.

Francine Pascal

7a7356d

What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she -- and Rapunzel, frankly -- needed was a d..

ladder rapunzel rooms

Francine Pascal

143f035

I think I'm going to cut down on my dating,' Annie said. 'I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren't always the answer.

sweet-valley empty dating

Francine Pascal

1db9525

The thought of gaining weight was all she needed to lose her appetite completely. Not that Jessica - a model-slim, perfect size-six - ever had to worry about her weight.

weight-gain superficiality sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

c276969

Losers with no imagination say that if you start a new school, there has to be a first day. How come they haven't figure out how to be that? Just think existentially. All you do is take what is supposed to be the first day and bury someplace in the next month. By the time you get around to it a month later, who cares?

Francine Pascal

ccbfb7a

Renny was smarter and funnier and more original than they'd ever be, but he was thirteen. He was at the brutal age when many kids would sell all their uniqueness in their character for the right pair of shoes.

Francine Pascal

9aad97a

As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it ..

distance tomorrow alone walking

Francine Pascal

22a102c

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.

sweet-valley single

Francine Pascal

3a4822a

In the midst of a full-blown disaster - with the house apparently self-destructing around them - Lila was calmly filing her nails.

filing nails sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

8f3ff2e

Ella is much younger. Maybe thirty. I don't know. And you certainly can't tell from the way she dresses. Middle of winter she finds a way to show her belly button. And she's got four hundred of these little elastic bands that can only pass for a skirt if you never move your legs. Top that with this unbelievable iridescent red hair and you've got one hot seventeen-year-old. At least that's what she thinks.

dressing mini-skirts redheads

Francine Pascal

1dedf50

He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn't matter that her wide blue eyes were narrowed or that her pretty mouth was twisted into a near snarl -- she was blatantly beautiful. It was kind of sick the way Ed was preoccupied with beautiful girls these days. He felt a little sorry for her. (He was also preoccupied with finding..

blending-in endearing lockers snarls pity school

Francine Pascal

07fc241

It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.

Francine Pascal

ea9fd36

Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.

oxygen veins milkshakes

Francine Pascal

8a3ab6a

That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.

Francine Pascal

d118858

Actually for a while Jessica had contemplated making a grand entrance wearing only the dress, thinking wickedly about how the sight of her cold, shivering body would prompt Nicholas to rush up and put his arms around her to warm her up. But evenings at this time of year were usually chilly, and she saw no reason to risk pneumonia just for a sympathy hug. She'd have to settle for throwing her coat off dramatically as she was being ushered in..

shiver teenage-girls sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

693cce2

Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.

sweet-valley fat

Francine Pascal

b34f978

She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine.

daydreaming disco mick-jagger sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

3bc38a0

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!

ethnic sweet-valley insecurity

Francine Pascal

cccc073

After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica--and that certainly was how it looked--she would not stand in the way. She'd do the decent thing. Die.

Francine Pascal

a1581da

Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die.

dramatic phones teenage-girls sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

eea46e7

Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.' Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.

uncomfortable sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

b4934ff

His tightly fitting jeans were unmistakably French.

jeans tight sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

a26cd5e

Elizabeth had amnesia and her defenses were down. Bruce had tried to take advantage of her - what guy wouldn't? Unfortunately, she got her memory back just in time, ran right out of his house, and wrecked his plans for the evening.

rape attempt sweet-valley creep

Francine Pascal

adf5886

Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.

werewolves

Francine Pascal

0e20607

I just can't wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I've been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.

dancing leaving-home superficiality sweet-valley

Francine Pascal