(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands


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E. LOCKHART
Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
E. LOCKHART
I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person,...
E. LOCKHART
Ohhh, I LOVE dim sum! What is it?
LAUREN-E
As if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.
E. LOCKHART
I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
E. LOCKHART
It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
E. LOCKHART
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav...
E. NESBIT
In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
E. LOCKHART
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem...
E. LOCKHART
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to ge...
E. LOCKHART
It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you t...
E. LOCKHART
To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to b...
SHEILA E.
You go ahead and eat that if you want, but I don't think it's possible.......
E. CLAIRE
The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the g...
E. LOCKHART
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E. RUTHERFORD
Do not accept an evil you can change.
E. LOCKHART
The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen
E. PALUSZAK
Unfortunately, it seems that I am eternally trapped in the dark realm of tangled ear-buds.
E. CLAIRE
The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE
I'm Canadian. Can't you take my word on it? (To Canadian immigration)
LAUREN-E
Don’t cry for me, yet make sure I live on instead/the flesh may be destroyed, but the soul has a l...
E. PALUSZAK
The irony of it all is that, while most people don't want to die, generally, those same people want ...
E. CLAIRE
I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
E. LOCKHART
Beauty comes from the inside, beyond your fair skin.
E. MELLYBERRY
Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. LOCKHART
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
E. LOCKHART
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than fi...
E. LOCKHART
Everyone who works at McDonalds has to do one of those ghost shifts.
LAUREN-E
She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE
Lonely like the sun......if anyone gets close to me I burn them
LAURA E
You can want me to do my job. Just don't expect me to.
E. CLAIRE
It's not that I'm lazy. I'm just prone to not working. At all. Ever.
E. CLAIRE
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART
He's afraid to confront the issues,
E. HELM
ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. ...
E. LOCKHART
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHART
He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. LOCKHART
But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I fee...
E. LOCKHART
I love him, but I am not sure I like him.
E. LOCKHART
She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing ...
E. LOCKHART
I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.
E. LOCKHART
He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART
Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than c...
E. LOCKHART
Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART
If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far ...
E. LOCKHART
My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summe...
E. LOCKHART
Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART
... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT
We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. LOCKHART
There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART
What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to...
E. NESBIT