black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

E. Lockhart

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

Junk Likes Want
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

Guy Merit Needs
If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
E. LOCKHART

Enemies Enemy Needs
She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
E. LOCKHART

Anymore Cry Feels
…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.
E. LOCKHART

Girl Powerful Sweet
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.
E. LOCKHART

Crazy Giving People Sometimes Up
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they’ve done, without doing anything myself.
E. LOCKHART

People Stuff Waiting
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHART

Rooms Seats Winner
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. LOCKHART

Destroy Giving Love Power
Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she’d had an impact. She wasn’t a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
E. LOCKHART

Appreciated Impact Rejection
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
E. LOCKHART

Hair Heart Mother
Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
E. LOCKHART

Love Someone Young
We should not accept an evil we can change.
E. LOCKHART

Accepting Evil Should
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.
E. LOCKHART

Ambition May Tomatoes
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.
E. LOCKHART

Cheater Ideas Insecure
We can’t know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
E. LOCKHART

People Philosophical Thinking

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More E. Lockhart Quotes