E. Lockhart Quotes - Page 2

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up.

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.

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.

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

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

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

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

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.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

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.

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