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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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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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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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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She doesn't feel like crying anymore.
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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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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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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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Be a little kinder than you have to.
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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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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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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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"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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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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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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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
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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.