Frases de E. Lockhart

“Están destruyendo a esta familia porque creen que se merecen la casa más bonita”

“Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas”

“Alguien escribió una vez que una novela debería suministrar una serie de pequeñas sorpresas. Yo recibo lo mismo pasando una hora contigo.”

“No importa que uno de nosotros esté perdida y desesperadamente enamorado.
Tan
enamorado
que deben tomarse
medidas igualmente desesperadas.”

“Es bueno que te quieran, aunque no dure.
Es bueno saber que érase una vez Gat y yo.”

“Cuando está allí, su piel pálida y ojos llorosos hacen que luzca glamorosamente trágica, como una heroína literaria desgastándose con el consumo.”

“No estoy hablando del destino. Yo no creo en el destino, ni en las almas gemelas, ni en lo sobrenatural. Lo que quiero decir es que nos comprendíamos el uno al otro. Totalmente.”

“La tragedia no es glamurosa”

“Nuestro beso convierte el mundo en polvo”

“Gat, mi Gat.
Él es contemplación y entusiasmo. Ambición y café intenso. Me encantan los parpados de sus ojos castaños, su lisa piel oscura, el labio inferior que sobresale. Su mente. Su mente.”

“Eso fue amor, y me golpeó tan fuerte que me apoyé contra la pantalla de la puerta que seguía de pie entre nosotros, sólo para permanecer vertical.”

“Teníamos calor y temblábamos,
éramos jóvenes y ancianos,
y estábamos vivos.
Yo pensaba: “Es cierto. Ya nos queremos.”
Ya nos queremos.”

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

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

“He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.”

“The universe was good because he was in it.”

“Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.”

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”

“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”

“I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.”

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

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”

“Always do what you're afraid to do.”

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

“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

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

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

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.”

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

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

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

“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”

“I love him, but I am not sure I like him.”