Frases de E. Lockhart

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“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.”

“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”

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

“The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.”

“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”

“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

“Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk”

“We can't know or say what other people do. have to think whatwant to do to get the situation where you want it to be.”

“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”

“Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.”

“Can I hold your hand?" he asked.
I put mine in his.
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to."
"I'm here.”

“We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”

“White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious.. Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.”

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

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

“We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground.”

“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.”

“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”

“… a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.”

“There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.”

“We should not accept an evil we can change.”

“You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.”

“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.”

“Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?”

“Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway.

Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious”

“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”