E. Lockhart: Quotes about people

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 people.
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“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

People

“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

People

“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

People , Secret

“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

People , Thinking

“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

People , Intelligence , Thinking , Heart

“… 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

People , Girl , Box

“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

People , Forgiveness , Happiness

“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

“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

“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

“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