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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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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...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise
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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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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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We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
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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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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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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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When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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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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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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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.