Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHARTNever take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHARTYou are my girlfriend,” whispered Matthew. ” You’re my girl and I’m your guy, and you’re my girl and I’m your guy. Let’s not fight.” -pg 126
E. LOCKHARTSomeone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. LOCKHARTLove is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.
E. LOCKHARTMy problem is I can think whatever I think-girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah – but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
E. LOCKHARTDo not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.
E. LOCKHARTThere will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they’re China. ‘Hello there! You’re so far away, I can’t get to you! Can you even hear me?
E. LOCKHARTAlways do what you’re afraid to do.
E. LOCKHARTFrankie 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. LOCKHARTA 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. LOCKHARTBecause 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. LOCKHARTIf those are your friends, you’ve got no need for enemies.
E. LOCKHARTThey 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. LOCKHARTThe 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.
E. LOCKHARTI don’t know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.
E. LOCKHARTI 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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