{"author":"E. Lockhart","author_id":"E.+Lockhart","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["fire"],"id":11412,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"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.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["boys","face-it","hate","love","movies","truth"],"id":49499,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"Be a little kinder than you have to.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["kindness","motto"],"id":52174,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the gun with unresolved anger, the guy with a chip on his shoulder, the guy who’s a vampire – and they tell you that you can have the mythical happy ending with that same brooding guy. But in reality, the brooding guy is cranky. He doesn’t reply to emails. He doesn’t call. He’s only half there when you’re talking to him, and he doesn’t chase you when you run. You feel insecure all the time. You get needy and sad and you hate yourself got being needy. If you don’t know why he’s brooding, you’re shut out.And if you do know why he’s brooding, you’re still shut out. (Because he’s busy brooding.).","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["bad-boys","boyfriends","brooding-boys","dating","love-interests","relationships"],"id":55097,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["books","love"],"id":68210,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'- Frankie Landau-Banks.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["secrets"],"id":71182,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["universe"],"id":71188,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["dogs","humor","psychotherapy","sanity"],"id":82757,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["love"],"id":90705,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"},{"text":"See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.","author":"E. Lockhart","tags":["quotes","to-live-by","we-were-liars"],"id":91482,"author_id":"E.+Lockhart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}