Quotes from E. Lockhart

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

I think you're beautiful always and forever.

He cried like a man,not like a boy.Not like he was frustrated or hadn't gotten his way,but like life was bitter.Like his wounds couldn't be healed.

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 scrab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow. Gat, my Gat.

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty –- I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate. In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

Not all pain is worth it,' said Tipper. 'Some pain is just pain.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him.

Now that I am grown, I think don't take no for an answer is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning that no means no.

It's not like I want to be friends with you now, Frankie. Don't even talk to me, I seriously can't deal with you. I'm just writing to say I underestimated you. I significantly underestimated you. I don't actually think it is possible to overestimate you. Although you are not a nice person.

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.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

What do you do then? When it's like that/" "Nothing. I 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. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay." "Another day." "Yes.

You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last

the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.