L. W. Lockhart Quotes

I don't know if there is a one for me. I think I might like variety.

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.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

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

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

She doesn't feel like crying anymore.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

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

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

Always do what you're afraid to do.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

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

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

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

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

My mind works in mysterious ways

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

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.

I wanted so much for us: a life free of constriction and prejudice. A life free to love and be loved.

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

Am I a professor? Goodness. I expect I was hopeless, was I?

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.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right

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

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

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

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

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

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

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.

SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.

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.

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

Don't worry, ' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'- Frankie Landau-Banks

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have it's members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.

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