L. W. Lockhart Quotes

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

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.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

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

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

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

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

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

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

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

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

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.

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

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

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

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

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

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

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

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

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

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

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.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.

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.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

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.

You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

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.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

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.