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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
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E. Lockhart Quotes

“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

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

Love

“Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.”

E. Lockhart

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

People , Dance

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“For Gat with everything, everything. Cady”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.”

E. Lockhart

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

Thinking , Dance

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Summer

“They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.”

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

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

People , World

“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

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

Life , People

“I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.”

E. Lockhart

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

Thinking

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Question , Personality

“I used to be strong, but now I am weak.
I used to be pretty, but now I look sick.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Strong

“I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.”

E. Lockhart

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

Understanding

“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.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Lie , Feeling , Waiting

“How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?”

E. Lockhart

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

Health , Madness

“Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what youfrom a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.”

E. Lockhart

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

Idea , Thinking

“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ⎼ for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Love , Education , Family , Beauty

“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

Personality

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

E. Lockhart

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

“After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. “Not because you’re a girl but because I’m a good person,” he told me.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Girl , Personality

“I was talking about Cady’s hair,” says Bonnie. “You don’t have to tell her she looks dead.” “It’s okay,” I tell Bonnie. “I don’t actually care what you think, so it’s perfectly okay.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Thinking , Dead

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
Source: We Were Liars

Coffee , Strong

“He asked about Dad and about Gran- as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“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 you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.”

E. Lockhart

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

People

“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.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Fate , Way , Soul

“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”

E. Lockhart

Source: Dramarama

Age , Music , Sex , Guy

“You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Way , Selfishness

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

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

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“No matter how puny your frontal equipment, don't wear the kind with the giant pads inside. If a guy squeezes them, he will wonder why they feel like Nerf balls instead of boobs.”

E. Lockhart

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

Guy , Feeling