Top 100 Lockhart'll Quotes
#1. Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.
J.K. Rowling
#2. Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students.
Paul Lockhart
#3. 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
#4. We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. Lockhart
#5. 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
#6. Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.
E. Lockhart
#7. [Students] are being trained to ape arguments, not to intend them.
Paul Lockhart
#8. I think I want a guy who eats vegetables.
And who isn't so normal.
He was just a muffin, you know?
E. Lockhart
#9. 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
#10. [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
#11. 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
#12. I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.
E. Lockhart
#13. 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
#14. It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.
E. Lockhart
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. as if this tragedy marked the end of the family. And perhaps it did. And perhaps it did not.
E. Lockhart
#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
E. Lockhart
#20. A part of me died," he says. "And it was the best part.
E. Lockhart
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
E. Lockhart
#25. 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
#26. Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.
E. Lockhart
#27. 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.
E. Lockhart
#28. E'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. Lockhart
#29. I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die.
E. Lockhart
#30. 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.
E. Lockhart
#31. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk
E. Lockhart
#32. Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.
J.K. Rowling
#33. 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.
E. Lockhart
#34. 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.
E. Lockhart
#35. He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. Lockhart
#36. Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
E. Lockhart
#37. Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
E. Lockhart
#38. She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
E. Lockhart
#39. 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
#40. Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.
E. Lockhart
#41. I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'
June Lockhart
#42. Gilderoy Lockhart is also a lot like someone I once knew, but I don't think I'd better elaborate!
J.K. Rowling
#43. 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.
E. Lockhart
#44. Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.
E. Lockhart
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!
J.K. Rowling
#50. She had been nobody and he had been golden.
E. Lockhart
#51. So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.
E. Lockhart
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.
E. Lockhart
#57. I am so angry. And so happy to see him.
E. Lockhart
#58. Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: "The majority is always wrong.
Peter B. Lockhart
#59. On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture.
Ross E. Lockhart
#60. Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
E. Lockhart
#61. Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
E. Lockhart
#62. There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. Lockhart
#63. You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.
E. Lockhart
#64. You would have been a light in the dark for so many people.
E. Lockhart
#66. 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
#67. Efficiency and economy simply do not make good pedagogy.
Paul Lockhart
#68. The last thing they want to hear is that math is really about raw creativity and aesthetic sensitivity. Many
Paul Lockhart
#69. 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
#70. Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
E. Lockhart
#71. ... 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
#72. I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
E. Lockhart
#74. 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
#75. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. Lockhart
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Paul Lockhart
#81. We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.
E. Lockhart
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I fell for you so hard, Cady. There was no stopping it.
E. Lockhart
#89. 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
#90. If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.
June Lockhart
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
E. Lockhart
#94. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.
E. Lockhart
#95. We shouldn't piss them off," explained Frankie, "because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
E. Lockhart
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. It's just a house. Lots of houses seem scary at night, but in the morning, they are friendly again.
E. Lockhart
#99. He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.
E. Lockhart
#100. For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
E. Lockhart
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