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“Always do what you’re afraid to do.” (We Were Liars Quotes)
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Everything doesn’t seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you’re young.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Grow up. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Half the time I hate myself for all the things I’ve done. But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I’m not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“He was a person who couldn’t fake a smile but smiled often.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he’s saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn’t like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don’t feel like thinking.” (We Were Liars Quotes)
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I am expressing my feelings, Johnny. That is what being a living, breathing human being is all about. Hello?”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I am not someone to pity, with an unstable mind and weird pain syndromes. I am taking charge of my life. I live according to my principles. I take action and make sacrifices.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“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
We Were Liars
“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“I’m dizzy and he’s holding me up and everything is clear and everything is grand, again. Our kiss turns the world to dust. There is only us and nothing else matters.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“It doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical. I wanted to touch him like he was a bunny, a kitten, something so special and soft your fingertips can’t leave it alone. 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 laced through one eyebrow. Gat, my Gat.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“My full name is Cadence Sinclair Eastman, and contrary to the expectations of the beautiful family in which I was raised, I am an arsonist. A visionary, a heroine, a rebel. The kind of person who changes history. A criminal.” (We Were Liars Quotes)
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“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
We Were Liars
“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“The Sinclairs are athletic, tall, and handsome. We are old-money Democrats. Our smiles are wide, our chins square, and our tennis serves aggressive.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Things are messed up in the world, that’s all.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“This is the United States of America. You don’t seem to understand that, so let me explain. In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.” (We Were Liars Quotes)
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. No one is needy. No one is wrong. We live, at least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Perhaps that is all you need to know.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy was holding after the humans had been put to bed.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. I was thinking, it’s true. We already love each other. We already do.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Welcome, once again, to the beautiful Sinclair family. We believe in outdoor exercise. We believe that time heals. We believe, although we will not say so explicitly, in prescription drugs and the cocktail hour. We do not discuss our problems in restaurants. We do not believe in displays of distress. Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. It is possible that we enjoy the way people are curious about us.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
“You have a life stretching out in front of you with a million possibilities. It – it grates on me when you ask for sympathy, that’s all.”
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
