E. Lockhart
"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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Girl
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.Collection: Love Is
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would beCollection: Wish
Silence is a protective coating over pain.Collection: Pain
She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.Collection: Sweet
Be a little kinder than you have to.Collection: Kindness
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.Collection: Impact
My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.Collection: Heart
We should not accept an evil we can change.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Goes On
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.Collection: Ambition
The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.Collection: Thinking
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?Collection: Color
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.Collection: Junk
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.Collection: Insecure
I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.Collection: Suffering
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.Collection: Sorry
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.Collection: Philosophical
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.Collection: Guy
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Girl
..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.Collection: Deals
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.Collection: Astonishment
The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.Collection: Life
If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.Collection: Enemy
It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.Collection: Sweet
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.Collection: Powerful
Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.Collection: Cute Love
...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.Collection: Girl
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. 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.Collection: Giving Up
I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.Collection: Understanding
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Dog
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.Collection: Broken
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?Collection: Short Life
We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.Collection: Life
Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?Collection: Ugly
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.Collection: Truth
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.Collection: Fun
Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Lying
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.Collection: When You Love Someone
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.Collection: People
You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Song
She had been nobody and he had been golden.Collection: Golden
I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.Collection: Strong