E. Lockhart Quotes

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• "I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

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  Girl, Trying, Panic Attacks

  "Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Strong, Thinking, Sick

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• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

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  Understanding, Swear, Humans

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver”, p.131, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

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  Girl, Good Friend, Boys

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Fly on the Wall”, p.35, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

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  Wish, Would Be, World

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

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• Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

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  Love Is, Giving

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.40, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Silence is a protective coating over pain.

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  Pain, Silence, Silence Is

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

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  Sweet, Simple, People

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.217, Hot Key Books

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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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  Goes On, Impossible, Ends

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• We should not accept an evil we can change.

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  Evil, Accepting, Should

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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• My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

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  Heart, Trout, My Heart

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• Be a little kinder than you have to.

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  Kindness, Kids, Littles

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

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  Ambition, Tomatoes, May

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

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

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  Thinking, Way, Problem

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• What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

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  Color, What If, Being Different

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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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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  Impact, Rejection, Appreciated

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books

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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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  Junk, Want, Likes

  E. Lockhart (2010). “Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• 8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

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  Insecure, Cheater, Ideas

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.149, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

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  Suffering, Fool, Migraine

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.18, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

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  Sorry, Mean, Apology

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.146, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, People

  E. Lockhart (2010). “The Boy Book”, p.50, Random House

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• These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

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  Guy, Merit, Needs

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.34, Hot Key Books

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• I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

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  Mother, Heart, Hair

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Crazy, People

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.214, Hot Key Books

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• I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.

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  Girl, Insecure, Thinking

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.55, Hot Key Books

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