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Emily Jenkins , who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet , The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. September 1967

Works

We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart: 101 quotes11 likes

Famous E. Lockhart Quotes

“Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

E. Lockhart Quotes about thinking

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

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.”

E. Lockhart

Source: Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“I think it was the institution… I was trying to master it.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

E. Lockhart Quotes about love

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

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

E. Lockhart

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“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.”

E. Lockhart

“It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

E. Lockhart: Trending quotes

“The universe was good because he was in it.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

E. Lockhart Quotes

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Always do what you're afraid to do.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Always do what you're afraid to do.
…
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
Source: We Were Liars

“He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

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

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I love him, but I am not sure I like him.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk”

E. Lockhart

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“We can't know or say what other people do. have to think whatwant to do to get the situation where you want it to be.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

“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.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

“Can I hold your hand?" he asked.
I put mine in his.
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."
"I'm here.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“… 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 book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“We should not accept an evil we can change.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: Do not accept an evil you can change.
Source: We Were Liars

“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.”

E. Lockhart

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.
Even if the dogs are small.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“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

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
Source: We Were Liars

“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”

E. Lockhart

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

“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.”

E. Lockhart

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“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.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

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