292 Quotes by E. Lockhart

My problem is I can think whatever I think – girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah – but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

It had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations.

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

I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair.

So I was a monster, she thought. At least I wasn’t someone’s little sister, someone’s girlfriend, some sophomore, some girl – someone whose opinions don’t matter.

The question is: how to be a good person if I don’t believe anymore.

I don’t want to forget I’m trying to remember.

Please, that is so antiquated. The institutions of male supremacy only have real power over you if you buy into that notion. Go found your own club and tell them they can’t join. Or better yet, drop the idea of clubs altogether because they’re exclusionary, and embrace some other, more flexible way of connecting with people.

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.