E. Lockhart: Doing

E. Lockhart is American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily Jenkins. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Always do what you're afraid to do.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Always do what you're afraid to do.
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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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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