E. Lockhart Quotes
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Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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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.
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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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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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
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Be a little kinder than you have to.
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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.
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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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
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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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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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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.
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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.