E. Lockhart: Likeness

“He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“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

Love

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

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Love

“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

Hate , World , Feeling

“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

Books , Lying , Personality

“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

Sadness

“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

Life

“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

Star

“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

Love , Guy

“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

Personality

“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

Fools , Suffering

“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

“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

“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

Love , People , Thinking , Heart

“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

“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

“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

“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