E. Lockhart Quotes

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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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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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Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

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

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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.

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Gideon laughed. "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. "Not seriously." "Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?" "Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.

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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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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.

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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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