Quotes by E. Lockhart

Secrets are more powerful when people know youve got them, said Mr. Sutton. You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

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, Its true. We already love each other.We already do.

Always do what youre 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.

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.

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

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.

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

“It shattered something inside me that hadnt been broken before.”

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think hes done something awful - he probably has.”

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

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

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