E. Lockhart

“Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually…

— E. Lockhart

“My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.”

— E. Lockhart

“I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it…

— E. Lockhart

“Don’t eat yellow snow’ - Johnny”

— E. Lockhart

“Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

— E. Lockhart

“You think it’s normal to get what you want all the time,” said Jule. “For things to be easy. But it isn’t.…

— E. Lockhart

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

— E. Lockhart

“You can't believe because she tells you to," I said "No. The question is: how to be a good person if I…

— E. Lockhart

“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”

— E. Lockhart

“Do you think a person is as bad as her worst actions?...I mean, do our worst actions define us when we're alive?…

— E. Lockhart

“People with money love Gershwin.”

— E. Lockhart

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

— E. Lockhart

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

— E. Lockhart

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where…

— E. Lockhart

“It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your…

— E. Lockhart

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

— E. Lockhart

“My feelings leak out my eyes, crumpling my face, heave through my frame”

— E. Lockhart

“...[F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use a sharp object.”

— E. Lockhart

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

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

— E. Lockhart

“I think I want a guy who eats vegetables. And who isn't so normal. He was just a muffin, you know?”

— E. Lockhart

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I…

— E. Lockhart

“I'm not telling you what I look like in any detail. I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes... First…

— E. Lockhart

“You think Tide is better, or All?' 'Which has a prettier box?' I ask. 'I don't want a pretty box. I want…

— 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