E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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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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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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A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
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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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The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.
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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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What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
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If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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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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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.