E. Lockhart Quotes

• “Be a little kinder than you have to.”

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• “Do not accept an evil you can change.”

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• “Always do what you're afraid to do.”

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• “There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

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• “We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”

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• “She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

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

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

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• “What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

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• “Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

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• “If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”

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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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• “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.”

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• “Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”

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

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• “I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.”

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• “Always do what you're afraid to do.
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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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• “It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

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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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• “Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.”

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• “He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”

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

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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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• “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 eyes,
  my ears,
  my mouth.
  It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.”

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• “Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.”

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