Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
E. LockhartI sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
E. LockhartI can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.
E. LockhartMeghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadnโt gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. โHere,โ she said. โDonโt you want it?โ โSure I want it. I ordered it. But Iโm giving it to you.โ โWhy?โ Meghan stood up and got me a fork. โRemember what Nora said about love? In your movie?โ โLove is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and itโs the very last piece, but you let him have it,โ I said. โSo itโs really amazing cake,โ said Meghan. โAnd I want you to have it.
E. LockhartFace it. There's not going to be a happy ending... at least not with this hero. So don't go mooning around thinking that your breakup is only the crisis before the big romantic scene, because I'm here to tell you that it's not. When you are dumped, you are dumped, and the guy isn't going to change his mind and realize that suddenly he loves you instead of that girl he's flirting with in lunchroom, now that he's free.
E. Lockhart