E. Lockhart

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

“I 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.”

“I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place.And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.”

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

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

“Never eat anything bigger than your ass.”

“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.”

“You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...”

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

“Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.”

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

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

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

“My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss...”

“When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.”

“When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.”

“Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.”