292 Quotes by E. Lockhart

The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t static. It’s an adaptation.

I grew up with very normal, stable people,” Brooke continued. “We acted normal all day long in my family. So normal I wanted to stab my eyes out. So I’m like an expert. And you? You are not normal. You should think about getting help for it, is what I’m saying.

Be a little kinder than you have to, Cady, and things will be all right.

Jule had loved Immie Sokoloff as well as she knew how to love anyone. She really had.

I can’t even say sorry,” she tells me. “There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.

I think you’re beautiful always and forever.

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.

So this Estella breaks the boy’s heart?” “Many times over. On purpose. Estella doesn’t know how to do anything else. Breaking hearts is her only power in the world.

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.