Top 250 E. Lockhart Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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2. “We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”

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3. “See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.”

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4. “Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”

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5. “Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

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6. “Be a little kinder than you have to.”

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

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8. “A lot of times, I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.”

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9. “Sometimes people are mean because they feel insecure about themselves.”

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10. “Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.”

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11. “I’ll be fine, they tell me. I won’t die. It’ll just hurt a lot.”

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12. “When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he’s done something awful – he probably has.”

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13. “She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

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

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

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

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17. “I think you’re beautiful always and forever.”

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18. “Never eat anything bigger than your ass.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name ‘Cause we made history Na na na na, na na.”

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22. “A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.”

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

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24. “If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiousity, and rain. Gat was contemplation and enthusiam. Ambition and strong coffee. My liars.”

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27. “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.”

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

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29. “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.”

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30. “Sex Ed – when I finally got to take it – was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.”

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31. “First grandchild,” says Thatcher. “There’s never anything to match that feeling.”

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

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33. “And yet, there was a witch. There is always a witch.”

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34. “Not all pain is worth it,’ said Tipper. ‘Some pain is just pain.”

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35. “WELCOME TO THE beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.”

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36. “They’re doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.”

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37. “Don’t pretend you would never hurt anybody.”

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38. “Be a little kinder than you have to.” We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, “Never eat anything bigger than your ass.”

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39. “My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.”

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40. “Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”

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41. “There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”

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

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43. “I said something about what if what if we could somehow stop being the Beautiful Sinclair Family and just be a family? What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

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44. “Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.”

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45. “I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes of the maple from which the tire swing flew, ashes of the old Victorian house with the porch and the hammock. The new house is built on the grave of all the trophies and symbols of the family: the New Yorker cartoons, the taxidermy, the embroidered pillows, the family portraits.”

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46. “It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. You see? Suffer migraines. Do not suffer fools. The word means almost the same as it did in the previous sentence, but not quite. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right.”

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47. “I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair.”

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

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49. “We should not accept an evil we can change.”

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50. “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.”

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