Top 100 E. Lockhart Quotes
#1. I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
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#2. Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
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#3. See?" I said. "That's exactly the person I don't want to be with. And he's always there, underneath all your charm.
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#4. You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
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#5. There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
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#7. For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
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#8. He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.
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#9. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.
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#10. That's the thing," said Gat. "Everyone's always asking Harris about everything. Why should a grown woman have to ask her father to approve her wedding?
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#11. We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.
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#12. I fell for you so hard, Cady. There was no stopping it.
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#13. 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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#14. In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.
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#16. Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.
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#17. Now at the breakfast table, watching him eat my toast, "Don't take no for an answer" seemed like the attitude of a privileged guy who didn't care who got hurt, so long as his wife had the cute statues she wanted to display in her summer house.
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#18. I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
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#19. I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
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#20. It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.
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#21. I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.
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#22. 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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#23. I think I want a guy who eats vegetables.
And who isn't so normal.
He was just a muffin, you know?
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#24. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
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#25. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
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#26. She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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#27. I think there is status to having a house full of pretty things, to buying expensive paintings of seashells from her arty friends and spoons from Tiffany's.
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#28. Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.
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#29. Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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#30. He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
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#31. Then he kissed my eyelids. Kind of licked them. And if you've never had someone lick your eyelids, you should know that it's not exactly romantic and it's even a tiny bit gross, but it feels like the other person really likes you and accepts you somehow.
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#32. I hit my fist into the wall of the shower. I washed off the shame and anger in cold, cold water.
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#33. I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.
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#34. Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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#35. 8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.
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#36. It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.
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#37. She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.
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#38. Oh, just you wait. I'll have, like Great Danes and pygmy goats and maybe even a baby panda living with me. That is what panic does to people if the attacks get bad enough.
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#39. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house,
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#40. And Gat did shut up, but his face contorted. He stood abruptly, picked up a rock from the sand, and threw it with all his force. He pulled off his sweatshirt and kicked off his shoes. Then he walked into the sea in his jeans. Angry.
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#42. How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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#43. A box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
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#44. It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.
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#45. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
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#46. Why do you hate yourself?"
And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around my hot ones, and his face is close to mine. He kisses me. "Because I want things I can't have," he whispers.
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#48. He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
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#49. When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.
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#50. It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.
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#51. I'd a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I've been in for the past two years.
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#52. Silence is a protective coating over pain.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.
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#56. Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.
Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious
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#57. His skin is warm and sandy.We intertwine our fingers and close our eyes against the sun.
We just lie there.Holding hands.He rubs my palm with his thumb like he did two summers ago beneath the stars.
And I melt.
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#58. 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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#59. You have some balls.
Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment ...
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#60. Do you still miss Gran?" I ask him as we head toward New Clairmont. "Because I miss her. We never talk about her." "A part of me died," he says. "And it was the best part." "You think so?" I ask. "That is all there is to say about it," says Granddad.
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#61. Taft gets hold of the wet baguette and hits Will with it.
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#62. Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.
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#63. Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
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#64. I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the Clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting. I
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#65. In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
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#66. Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
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#67. I had kissed an unimportant boy or three by now.
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#68. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
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#70. I think it was the institution ... I was trying to master it.
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#71. I guess that is why they've been here. I needed them.
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#72. Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
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#73. Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.
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#74. If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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#75. 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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#76. We should not accept an evil we can change.
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#77. They built three new houses on their craggy private island and gave them each a name: Windemere for Penny, Red Gate for Carrie, and Cuddledown for Bess.
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#78. Every curve of his face was familiar, and also, I had never seen him before.
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#79. If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
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#80. We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour.
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#81. Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar.
We have been here before.
Also we have never been here before.
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#82. She never seemed to second-guess her thoughts.
Me, I second-guess everything.
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#83. One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.
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#84. He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.
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#85. I lie in my darkened room. Scavenger birds peck at the oozing matter that leaks from my crushed skull.
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#86. I seem to remember there was some hocus-pocus with that one."
"You mean hanky-panky!" shouted Ruth. "There was hanky panky.
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#87. Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'
- Frankie Landau-Banks
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#88. I thought she was a conniving, lying, man-stealing bitch, and I hoped she would fall in a volcano and die a horrible lava death.7 But
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#89. On the other hand, it's like we're three years old. You don't want that scruffy old teddy bear until your friend takes it and starts having a good time with it. Then suddenly it's the cutest bear you've ever seen, and you want to get it away from her.
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#90. When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.
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#91. I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.
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#92. It makes it hard to be alive, some days. A lot of times I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.
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#93. It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
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#94. Once you are there, the rest of the universe seems nothing but an unpleasant dream.
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#95. I think you're beautiful always and forever.
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#97. Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.
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#98. E'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
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#99. There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.
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#100. Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world.
And maybe,
just maybe,
he'd come back one day,
and burn that
fucking
palace
to the ground
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