Quotes from E. Lockhart

Be sad, be sorry - but don't shoulder it.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

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.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

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.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Always do what you're afraid to do.