Top 100 E Lockhart Quotes
#1. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
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#2. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do.
And then I don't.
I do.
And then I don't.
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#4. 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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#5. Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
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#6. 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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#7. And now he was mine and I said we should not let our love be threatened.
We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should.
We would be heroes, even.
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#8. You would have been a light in the dark for so many people.
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#9. You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
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#10. There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
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#11. Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
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#12. Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
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#13. On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture.
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#14. I am so angry. And so happy to see him.
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#15. And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.
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#16. You think Tide is better, or All?'
'Which has a prettier box?' I ask.
'I don't want a pretty box. I want a dude box.'
Uh-huh,' I deadpan. 'You want a dude box of laundry detergent.'
'Yes, I do.'
'Good luck with that.
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#17. I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow.
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#18. Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done ... But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.
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#20. For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
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#21. He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.
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#22. It's just a house. Lots of houses seem scary at night, but in the morning, they are friendly again.
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#23. I've been a little sad that so many girls love Tommy so much. Hello!?! Tommy Hazard and Prince Charming - neither one exists!
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#24. But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.
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#25. We shouldn't piss them off," explained Frankie, "because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
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#26. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.
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#27. I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I fell for you so hard, Cady. There was no stopping it.
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#31. He wasn't much of a dancer, but he knew it, and the faces he pulled when he danced gave him a perpetually startled look-as if he were, at regular intervals, surprised to find himself dancing.
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#32. He cried like a man,not like a boy.Not like he was frustrated or hadn't gotten his way,but like life was bitter.Like his wounds couldn't be healed.
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#33. We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.
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#34. 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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#35. One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.
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#36. 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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#37. We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.
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#39. I was talking about Cady's hair," says Bonnie. "You don't have to tell her she looks dead." "It's okay," I tell Bonnie. "I don't actually care what you think, so it's perfectly okay.
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#40. She made me act normal. Because I was. Because I could. She told me to breathe and sit up. And I did what she asked. Again.
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#41. Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.
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#42. Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
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#43. 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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#44. I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
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#46. These guys, they were so sure of their places in life
so deeply confident of their merit and their future
they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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#47. A part of me died," he says. "And it was the best part.
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#48. 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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#49. as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. And perhaps it did. And perhaps it did not.
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#50. It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.
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#51. I've never kissed anyone who talked so much about kissing," I told him.
Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct."
"Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inscrutable and generally send mixed messages.
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#52. It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.
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#53. My whole body sings to be near him,because every movement he makes is charged with electricity.I often think of putting my arms around him or running my fingers along his lips.When I let my thoughts go there the sharp pain of unrequited love invites the migraine in.
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#54. I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.
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#58. Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
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#59. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
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#60. After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. "Not because you're a girl but because I'm a good person," he told me.
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#61. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
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#62. She had been nobody and he had been golden.
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#63. 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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#64. The fairies came to christening parties and gave the babies magical gifts.
Bounce, effort, and snark.
Contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
Sugar, curiosity, and rain.
And yet, there was a witch.
There's always a witch.
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#65. They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
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#66. Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.
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#67. Three flowers for you. You should have three. He looks pitiful. He looks powerful. I love him, but I am not sure I like him. I take his hand and lead him inside.
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#68. Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have ... " or "Sorry, but I just didn't ... " They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.
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#69. She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
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#70. Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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#71. Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
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#72. He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally."
"Okay."
"It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward."
"I said okay."
"Okay, then."
And he runs.
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#77. His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.
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#78. Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
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#79. 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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#80. Kids are smarter than grown ups these days. ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
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#81. It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.
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#82. She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.
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#83. 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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#84. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house,
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#85. I felt his eyes go over my body in my wet dress.
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#86. It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
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#87. 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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#88. Silence is a productive coating over pain." -We Were Liars
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#89. Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept an evil you can change
Always do what your afraid to do
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#90. And now, she was walking down the hall with her books clutched to her chest, looking down at the floor while guys called, Don't hide that light under a bushel!
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#91. We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.
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#92. It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch.
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#93. When we say Shut up, Gat, that isn't what we mean at all.
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#95. How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
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#96. Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
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#97. They can't beat when I'm unhappy. They try and fix it; they'd fix the whole world if they could, just to make me feel better-even when it's none of their business. It's one of the many hazards of being an only child.
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#98. ...you must wear clothes, you must honor your teachers, you must not attack fellow students' dorm rooms with chain saws.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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