292 Quotes by E. Lockhart

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he’s done something awful – he probably has.

Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.

Yes, it’s true that I fell in love with someone and that he died, along with the two other people I loved best in this world. That has been the main thing to know about me, the only thing about me for a very long time, although I didn’t know it myself. But there must be more to know. There will be more.

She looked the same, looked just like anyone, but she saw the world differently after that. To be a physically powerful woman – it was something. You could go anywhere, do anything, if you were difficult to hurt.

Frankie was beginning to realize that the kind of selective memory exhibited by Dean, Star, and their ilk was neither stupidity nor poor recollection. It was a power play – possibly subconscious on the part of the player – but nevertheless intended to discomfit another person who was in some way perceived as a threat.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

First grandchild,” says Thatcher. “There’s never anything to match that feeling.

I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting.

They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, ‘I’m starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!’ ‘I can’t walk, I’m paralyzed, but still I see the bright side of life, happy happy!’ A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies.