"She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be."
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

"It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.
"
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

"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

"I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred. As if readers will only like a character who's ideal--or completely shattered."
— E. Lockhart (The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver)

"Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them."
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

"White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love."
— E. Lockhart

"There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?'"
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

"I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theature fused together."
— E. Lockhart (Dramarama)

"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 (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)