She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be. — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret,… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself. — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“And then he's grabbing my hand, and pulling me into a storage room they use for art supplies. And he puts his finger to… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Noel shook his head. "You think better of this scene than I do, Ruby. Don't you see how fake those girls are? Let it… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don’t have one.” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Also, I was living in the middle of my parents' marriage. No one ever says this about families, and maybe people who aren't only… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something. A milkshake.” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. And maybe, just maybe, he'd come… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love. So much in love, that equally desperate measures must be taken” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
