E. Lockhart Quotes

“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.”

“Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that. So many have the same premise: once upon a time, there were three.”

″‘We set a fire,’ I say, in wonder. ‘We didn’t sob and bleed; we did something instead. Made a change.‘”

“I cry because I am the only one of us still alive. Because I will have to go through life without the Liars. Because they will have to go through whatever awaits them, without me.”

“We figured if the house was gone, and the paperwork and data inside it gone, and all the objects they fought about gone, the power would be gone.”

“All my bravado from this morning, the power, the perfect crime, taking down the patriarchy, the way we Liars saved the summer idyll and made it better, the way we kept our family together by destroying some part of it—all that is delusional. The dogs are dead…”

“It was love, and it hit me so hard I leaned against the screen door that still stood between us, just to stay vertical.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The universe was good because he was in it.”

″‘If I die,’ I say as we look at the view, ‘I mean, when I die, throw my ashes in the water of the tiny beach. Then when you miss me, you can climb up here, look down, and think how awesome I was.‘”

“Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.”

″‘Granddad held so much power,’ I say. ‘And now he doesn’t. We changed an evil we saw in the world.‘”

“She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.”