292 Quotes by E. Lockhart

The fact that I couldn’t understand his life experience very well, combined with how he was a year ahead of me and really into all his academics, the literary magazine, et cetera – that meant that all the time, he got to be the big man and I was looking up at him with wide eyes. And that was what he liked about me. And why he despised me.

For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.

In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

Lots of girls don’t notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don’t remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don’t become upset that the boyfriend isn’t interested.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.

I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

There’s something about seeing a guy’s feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.

Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.