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Your love for him convinced you he was a good guy deep down. It convinced you he was capable of changing if you stuck around for long enough.

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Intelligent girls refuse to take part in drama. They do not want to fight for your attention. They do not want to decipher mixed signals.

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She doesn’t give a fuck about hurting people who hurt her first. 

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It is true that speaking keeps you more occupied than thinking.

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Even though they have common sense, even though the rational part of their brain is telling them everything is going to be okay, they can’t stop their anxiety. It is out of their control.

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Intelligent girls see mixed signals for what they really are — proof that you don’t care about them as much as you should.

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They are stuck in their heads all the time. Sometimes they will get lost in a daydream and won’t notice what’s going on around them.

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Being intelligent is more than getting a high SAT score and attending an Ivy League college. It’s more than being able to list out all of the state capitals and using six-syllable words.

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They actually wait. They aren’t secretly looking for someone to love them and acting they don’t care, they genuinely like their lives. The love the people in it and are not seeking validation from someone or anyone at all.

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You lose an intelligent girl by refusing to expand your knowledge. By never reading her favorite book. By telling her you think a museum date would be too boring.