Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by E. Lockhart - Page 2

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.

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.

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

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.

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

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.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

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.

Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said. “Don’t you want it?” “Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.” “Why?” Meghan stood up and got me a fork. “Remember what Nora said about love? In your movie?” “Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it,” I said. “So it’s really amazing cake,” said Meghan. “And I want you to have it.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.