E. Lockhart Quotes
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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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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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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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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...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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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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Be a little kinder than you have to.
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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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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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Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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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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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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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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"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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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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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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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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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.
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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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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.
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Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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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.