E. Lockhart

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

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

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

"Gideon laughed. 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. Not seriously. Seriously, I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. What's your strong point, then?Goats, I told him. I am excellent with goats."

"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen, I said. I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk."

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

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

"Another thing that happens in the movies: They all have these dramatic crises where everything looks bleak and you think the couple will never, ever get back together. But then they realize they can't live without each other, and in the end they live happily ever after. It's all a lie. When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful-he probably has. You're not going to love him again. He's not going to apologize, or come back to you. He probably doesn't even ever think about you at all, because he's too busy thinking about someone else."

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