Quote

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

E. Lockhart

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
Writer
New York City
New York
Emily Jenkins
Emily Lockhart
E. Lockhart
Impact
Frankie
Meant
Rejections
Needed
Accolades
Wasn
Notorious
Persons
Appreciated
Person
Rejection
Much
Equally
Liked

More quotes by E. Lockhart

Image
Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. Lockhart
Image
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.
E. Lockhart
Image
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.
E. Lockhart
Image
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
E. Lockhart
Image
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. Lockhart
Image
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
E. Lockhart
Image
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.
E. Lockhart
Image
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. Lockhart
Image
We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.
E. Lockhart
Image
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.
E. Lockhart
Image
Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
E. Lockhart
Image
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
E. Lockhart
Image
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
E. Lockhart
Image
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
E. Lockhart
Image
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
E. Lockhart
Image
The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. Lockhart
Image
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. Lockhart
Image
Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
E. Lockhart
Image
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.
E. Lockhart
Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.
E. Lockhart