Quotes from E. Lockhart

I own a well-used library card and not much else

We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour.

I think there is status to having a house full of pretty things, to buying expensive paintings of seashells from her arty friends and spoons from Tiffany's.

It is true I do not suffer fools. I

Boobs are just inherently undignified.

It seemed simple to them: Leave the old country behind and reinvent your life. And if you couldn't quite live the American dream, then your children would do it for you.

You're such an ass, Gat," says Johnny kindly.

Nothing, I just lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever, that there will be another day and after that, yet another day

Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

It was love and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us,just to stay vertical.I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny,a kitten,something so special and soft your fingertips can't leave it alone.The universe was good because he was in it.I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow.Gat,my Gat.

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying.

Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Maybe a picture will emerge from the pixels.

She wanted him to know his children and grandchildren were still around him, strong and merry as ever. It was important, she said; it was kind; it was best. Don't cause distress, she said. Don't remind people of a loss. "Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.

I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the Clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting. I

He is right. I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do. And then I don't. I do. And then I don't.

We have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experience the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that.

Suffer. You could say it means to endure, but that's not exactly right

No importa que uno de nosotros esté perdida y desesperadamente enamorado. Tan enamorado que deben tomarse medidas igualmente desesperadas.

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master.

Here I stand frozen, when I deserve to burn.

I had kissed an unimportant boy or three by now. 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.

Teníamos calor y temblábamos, éramos jóvenes y ancianos, y estábamos vivos. Yo pensaba: "Es cierto. Ya nos queremos." Ya nos queremos.