Top 100 Lockhart Quotes
#1. Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.
J.K. Rowling
#2. What've we got this afternoon?" said Harry, hastily changing the subject. "Defense Against the Dark Arts," said Hermione at once. "Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?" Hermione snatched the schedule back, blushing furiously.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!
J.K. Rowling
#4. Mandy Mitchell's up to her elbows in someone else's shit." Of all the other housekeepers to be assigned to the same floor, she had to get Tori. "As you know, I go by Amanda Lockhart now." "Ah, you'll
Roxanne St. Claire
#5. Kids are smarter than grown ups these days. ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#7. Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn't you say? Everyone practises it, from the President of China to the whores on Lockhart Road.
Michael Wreford
#8. One of the major Lockhart restaurants, Kreuz Market, ships to anywhere in the continental United States.
Tyler Cowen
#9. Be a little kinder than you have to." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#10. What happened to the little blond girls who used to run around this place?" Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#11. If you're a drug addict," says Taft, "there is something you need to know." "What?" "Drugs are not your friend." Taft looks serious. "Drugs are not your friend and also people should be your friends." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#12. Of all the other housekeepers to be assigned to the same floor, she had to get Tori. As you know, I go by Amanda Lockhart now.
Roxanne St. Claire
#13. Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him.
"You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.
J.K. Rowling
#14. Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'
Bryan Batt
#15. An extraordinary lightness seemed to spread through his whole body and the next second, in a rush of wings, they were flying upward through the pipe. Harry could hear Lockhart dangling bellow him, saying, Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!
J.K. Rowling
#17. Lockhart cuffed Harry merrily on the shoulder. "Just do what I did, Harry!" "What, drop my wand?
J.K. Rowling
#18. Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him.
J.K. Rowling
#19. Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?
J.K. Rowling
#21. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. Lockhart
#22. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do.
And then I don't.
I do.
And then I don't.
E. Lockhart
#24. I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
E. Lockhart
#25. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!
Paul Lockhart
#26. Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
E. Lockhart
#27. See?" I said. "That's exactly the person I don't want to be with. And he's always there, underneath all your charm.
E. Lockhart
#28. The last thing they want to hear is that math is really about raw creativity and aesthetic sensitivity. Many
Paul Lockhart
#29. Efficiency and economy simply do not make good pedagogy.
Paul Lockhart
#30. I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.
Paul Lockhart
#31. 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.
E. Lockhart
#32. You would have been a light in the dark for so many people.
E. Lockhart
#33. You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
E. Lockhart
#34. There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. Lockhart
#35. Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
E. Lockhart
#36. Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
E. Lockhart
#37. On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture.
Ross E. Lockhart
#38. Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: "The majority is always wrong.
Peter B. Lockhart
#39. I am so angry. And so happy to see him.
E. Lockhart
#40. And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.
E. Lockhart
#41. 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.
E. Lockhart
#42. 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.
E. Lockhart
#43. 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.
E. Lockhart
#45. For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
E. Lockhart
#46. He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.
E. Lockhart
#47. It's just a house. Lots of houses seem scary at night, but in the morning, they are friendly again.
E. Lockhart
#48. I've been a little sad that so many girls love Tommy so much. Hello!?! Tommy Hazard and Prince Charming - neither one exists!
E. Lockhart
#49. 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.
E. Lockhart
#50. We shouldn't piss them off," explained Frankie, "because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
E. Lockhart
#51. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.
E. Lockhart
#52. I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
E. Lockhart
#53. 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?
E. Lockhart
#54. You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ...
Charlotte Munro
#55. If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.
June Lockhart
#56. 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.
E. Lockhart
#57. I fell for you so hard, Cady. There was no stopping it.
E. Lockhart
#58. 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.
E. Lockhart
#59. 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.
E. Lockhart
#60. 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.
E. Lockhart
#61. 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.
E. Lockhart
#62. 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.
E. Lockhart
#63. 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.
E. Lockhart
#64. We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.
E. Lockhart
#65. Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Paul Lockhart
#67. 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.
E. Lockhart
#68. 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.
E. Lockhart
#69. Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.
E. Lockhart
#70. Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
E. Lockhart
#71. 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.
E. Lockhart
#72. I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
E. Lockhart
#73. Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?
Paul Lockhart
#75. 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.
E. Lockhart
#76. A part of me died," he says. "And it was the best part.
E. Lockhart
#77. I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
E. Lockhart
#78. as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. And perhaps it did. And perhaps it did not.
E. Lockhart
#79. It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.
E. Lockhart
#80. 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.
E. Lockhart
#81. It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.
E. Lockhart
#82. 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.
E. Lockhart
#83. I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.
E. Lockhart
#84. Can you take me back into town?" I say. "I can't get my voicemails."
"Why don't you calm down, D-Dub. I know you're menstruating, but everything's going to be fine. Once we get inside, I'll explain all about maxi pads, personal hygiene and the feel of a man's penis.
Victoria Scott
#85. [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.
Paul Lockhart
#86. Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. Lockhart
#87. I think I want a guy who eats vegetables.
And who isn't so normal.
He was just a muffin, you know?
E. Lockhart
#88. [Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them.
Paul Lockhart
#89. Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.
E. Lockhart
#90. 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.
E. Lockhart
#91. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. Lockhart
#92. Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students.
Paul Lockhart
#93. 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.
E. Lockhart
#94. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
E. Lockhart
#95. She had been nobody and he had been golden.
E. Lockhart
#96. Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!
J.K. Rowling
#97. I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.
June Lockhart
#98. 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.
E. Lockhart
#99. 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.
E. Lockhart
#100. 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.
E. Lockhart
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