Quotes from E. Lockhart

Silence is a protective coating over pain." I understood, and I managed to erase Granny Tipper from conversation, the same way I had erased my father. Not happily, but thoroughly.

That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing i on he streets of New York. People sick and starving in one of the richest nations in the world. I just - I can't think that anyone's watching over those people. Which means no one is watching over me, either.

He might have left Amherst and traveled far away, to Italy or Mexico in search of beautiful food and adventure...Made small things exciting and beautiful, the way he knew how. pg. 246

Bounce, effort, and snark. Contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. Sugar, curiosity, and rain...

I like the idea of a motto,' she goes on. 'I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.' 'Like what?' asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says, 'be a little kinder than you have to.

We didn't have towels. We huddled together under a fleece blanket we found under the seats, our bare shoulders touching each other. Cold feet, on top of one another.

Be a little kinder - Mirren

Migraines left my blood spreading across unfamiliar hotel sheets, dripping on the floors, oozing into carpets, soaking through leftover croissants and Italian lace cookies.

He was never fond of dogs,

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. (p. 24)

Never eat anything bigger than your ass

Do not accept an evil you can change - Gat

I had kissed an unimportant boy or three by now.

Silence is a protective coating over pain. (p.29)

He wasn't much of a dancer, but he knew it, and the faces he pulled when he danced gave him a perpetually startled look-as if he were, at regular intervals, surprised to find himself dancing.

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

Never eat anything bigger than your ass - Johnny

I hit my fist into the wall of the shower. I washed off the shame and anger in cold, cold water.

He was a stranger in our family, even after all those years. WHEN

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)

When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

You're trying to prevent something that's already happened, said Kaspian-Lee calmly.

I will prove myself strong, when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave, when they think I am weak. (p.142)

He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.