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Emily Jenkins est née le 13 septembre 1967 à New York. Elle utilise souvent comme nom de plume : E. Lockhart. Elle est écrivaine américaine de livres pour enfants, romans pour adolescents ou encore fictions pour adultes. Elle a grandi à Cambridge et à Seattle et a étudié l'anglais au Vassar College. Emily a eu ensuite son doctorat en littérature anglaise. Elle vit actuellement dans la région de New York.

Jenkins écrit sous le nom de Lockhart pour le marché des adolescents, reprenant le nom de sa grand-mère. Son premier roman a été The Boyfriend List publié en 2004. Wikipedia  

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E. Lockhart: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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E. Lockhart livre We Were Liars

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“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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”

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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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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E. Lockhart livre 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.”

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“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”

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“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.”

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“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”

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“… 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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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

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Variante: Do not accept an evil you can change.
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“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.”

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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.”

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

“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”

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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.”

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Variante: I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
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