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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suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right

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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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One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

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Always do what you're afraid to do. ... 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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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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Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then from my ey...

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Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.

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For Gat with everything, everything. Cady

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Always do what you're afraid to do.

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My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss...

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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. Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.. Better than chocolate, being wi...

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Be a little kinder than you have to.

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They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. T...

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He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

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Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

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Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

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

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My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

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The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

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Our kiss was electric and soft, and tentative and certain, terrifying and exactly right. I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me. We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. I was thinking, It's true. We already love ...

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The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

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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