Tarquin Lockhart Quotes

You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ... ~ Charlotte Munro

Such a pity, really; the prey falling for the predator. The victim in love with the killer ... A mere mortal girl thinking a demon was capable of love. ~ Charlotte Munro

She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society ... but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. 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

So [in mathematics] we get to play and imagine whatever we want and make patterns and ask questions about them. But how do we answer these questions? It's not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do ... The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations, and that is hard work. ~ Paul Lockhart

It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it. ~ E. Lockhart

People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is. ~ E. Lockhart

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

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. ~ E. Lockhart

Concession to concession, this night
is ours. With lots of blueprint houses
burning their brick-base settler dream
into the land Tecumseh died for. ~ D.A. Lockhart

I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair ~ E. Lockhart

It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. ~ E. Lockhart

I felt his eyes go over my body in my wet dress. ~ E. Lockhart

I'm going to run away now," says Gat. "Don't take it personally."
"Okay."
"It's better for the starting over if I run. Because walking will just be awkward."
"I said okay."
"Okay, then."
And he runs. ~ E. Lockhart

My whole body sings to be near him,because every movement he makes is charged with electricity.I often think of putting my arms around him or running my fingers along his lips.When I let my thoughts go there the sharp pain of unrequited love invites the migraine in. ~ E. Lockhart

We burned not a home, but a symbol.
We burned a symbol to the ground. ~ E. Lockhart

I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status. ~ Sophie Kinsella

You would have been a light in the dark for so many people. ~ E. Lockhart

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

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

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be ~ E. Lockhart

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. ~ E. Lockhart

A rock star without rhythm is a man with no soul." – Stone Lockhart ~ Mandi Beck

However in recent times, the US and the whole world has been hit by a
financial Tsunami, because of beliefs which are now, to everyone in
hindsight, blatantly and obviously absurd. ~ Peter B. Lockhart

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken. ~ E. Lockhart

She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions. ~ Philip Pullman

So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember. ~ E. Lockhart

It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical. The universe was good because he was in it. I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laces through one eyebrow. Gat, my Gat. ~ E. Lockhart

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.' ~ June Lockhart

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

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

Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrongs no more. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay

Silence is a productive coating over pain." -We Were Liars ~ E. Lockhart

A man cannot un-see the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness or go blind once he has the gift of sight, anymore than he can be unborn.

We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap ourselves in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement; superiority to other men.

But there is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. We do our best to deny its existence, dealing in lies and distraction. Until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out… I am not a well man. Only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure. ~ Justin Haythe

I just-I don't want to get involved with you Jackson," I said, the words tumbling out. "You're a nice guy, but then, when it comes down to it-you're not, really. ~ E. Lockhart

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

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

The universe was good because he was in it. ~ E. Lockhart

Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power in the United States of America, who with their poison words of deceit, have in the name of free enterprise and prosperity, by the destruction of regulations put into place after the last Depression, have repeated history with this one. ~ Peter B. Lockhart