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. LOCKHARTShe doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
More E. Lockhart Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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I don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
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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.
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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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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.
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If those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
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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.
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Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
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We should not accept an evil we can change.
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Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.
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The opposite of the life where the girl can’t even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren’t even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
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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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I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they’ve done, without doing anything myself.
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