Quotes by E. Lockhart

About E. Lockhart:

Emily Jenkins is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liars.
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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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It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

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Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you 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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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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It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

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

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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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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. ...

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The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy en...

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Noel: A lot of people see friends as something you have on Twitter or Facebook or wherever. If someone wants to read your updates and you want to read their updates, then you’re friends. You don’t ever have to see each other. But that seems like ...

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

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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.” “...

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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 t...

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I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that...

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..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

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There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

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Never eat anything bigger than your ass.

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Author Bio

  • NameE. Lockhart
  • DescriptionAmerican writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily Jenkins
  • AliasesEmily Jenkins
  • BornSeptember 13, 1967
  • ProfessionWriter