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Quotes About Relationships

Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with. Frankie wanted to be a force.
~ E. Lockhart
a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
~ E. Lockhart
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
~ E. Lockhart
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
~ E. Lockhart
Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.
~ E. Lockhart
I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.
~ E. Lockhart
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.
~ E. Lockhart
He asked about Dad and about Gran- as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.
~ E. Lockhart
He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.
~ E. Lockhart
Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe off their smiles. Be a family. Stay a family.
~ E. Lockhart
If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
~ E. Lockhart
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.
~ E. Lockhart
Why did you do all that, Frankie?" asked Porter. "I mean, it was brilliant, what you did, what you made us do - but why would you bother? That's what I can't figure out." Frankie sighed. "Have you ever heard of the panopticon?" she asked him. Porter shook his head. "Have you ever been in love?" He shook his head again. "Then I can't explain it," Frankie said. They went inside and took the geometry test.
~ E. Lockhart
That's the thing," said Gat. "Everyone's always asking Harris about everything. Why should a grown woman have to ask her father to approve her wedding?
~ E. Lockhart
F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use a sharp object.
~ E. Lockhart
Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
~ E. Lockhart
He is shivering slightly and he kisses my neck with cold lips.We stay like that,enfolded in each other's arms,for a minute or two, and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself, and I know any anger we felt has disappeared. Gat kisses me on the lips,and touches my cheek. I love him. I have always loved him.
~ E. Lockhart
Lots of girls don't notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don't remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don't become upset that the boyfriend isn't interested.
~ E. Lockhart
Other people adapt to you, asshole. You think there's no adapting going on, but you're fucking blind, Forrest. It's all around you, all the time.
~ E. Lockhart
No estoy hablando del destino. Yo no creo en el destino, ni en las almas gemelas, ni en lo sobrenatural. Lo que quiero decir es que nos comprendíamos el uno al otro. Totalmente.
~ E. Lockhart
Isaac liked me because I was ignorant and that meant he could teach me, right? That made him feel like a man.
~ E. Lockhart
Some boyfriends?" "Three boyfriends." "Three boyfriends is a lot." Jule shrugged. "I couldn't decide.
~ E. Lockhart
At least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened
~ E. Lockhart
I am not talking about fate. I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way. - Cady
~ E. Lockhart