E. Lockhart Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Astonishment, Hours, Should

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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• The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

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  Life, Needs, Right Now

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.36, Delacorte Press

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• If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

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  Enemy, Needs, Ifs

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.122, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

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  Sweet, Simple, Doors

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.217, Hot Key Books

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• Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

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  Powerful, People, Secret

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.44, Hot Key Books

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• Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

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  Cute Love, Love Is, Cake

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.140, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• ...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.

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  Girl, Sweet, Powerful

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.138, Hot Key Books

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• She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. 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.

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  Giving Up, Crazy, Doors

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• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

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  Understanding, Swear, Humans

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver”, p.131, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

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  People, Warning, Enough

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.112, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

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  Dog, Limits, Mental Health

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.10, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

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  Broken, Shattered

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.60, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

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  Short Life, Party, Home

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• We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

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  Life, United, Knows

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.23, Hot Key Books

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• Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

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  Ugly, May, Call Me

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.160, Hot Key Books

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• When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

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  Truth, Hate, Thinking

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.49, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

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  Fun, Thinking, Ready

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.20, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

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  Sex, People, Birth Control

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.175, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

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  Lying, Philosophical, Trying

  "The Boy Book". Book by E. Lockhart, 2006.

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• Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

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  When You Love Someone, Young, Love Someone

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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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  People, Waiting, Stuff

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.132, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

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  Song, Rain, People

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book”, p.95, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• You 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

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  Girl, Fighting, Guy

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• Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him. "Not seriously." "Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?" "Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.

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  Strong, Thinking, Hands

  "Real Live Boyfriends". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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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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  Levels, Should, Being True

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 2: The Boy Book”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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