292 Quotes by E. Lockhart

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.

I had lost my dad. I had come here to this island from a house of tears and falsehood and I saw Gat, and I saw that rose in his hand, and in that one moment, with the sunlight from the window shining in on him, the apples on the kitchen counter, the smell of wood and ocean in the air, I did call it love.

For the college essay, she wrote that in these stories, being orphaned is a precondition for the making of a hero. She also said those comic book heroes aren’t simple heroes, but ’complicated ones who make moral compromises in the same tradition as the orphans in Victorian narratives.

I do not suffer fools.

He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

I am so angry. And so happy to see him.

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.

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