Quotes By Author: E. Lockhart

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

“It’s not objective. It’s subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It’s just what you think, not the truth.”

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he’s done something awful – he probably has.”

“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 to talk.”

“I think it was the institution…I was trying to master it.”

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

“It shattered something inside me that hadn’t been broken before.”

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

“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. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

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