Fly on the Wall Quotes

“I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“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, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“The white realtor lady asks if I'm adopted—like that's some legitimate, socially appropriate question to ask—and is halfway through a gushy story about her friend's new baby from Korea when I say, “Haven't you ever heard of interracial marriage? It's all the rage in civilized countries,” and she shuts up and purses her lips.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually think.

I wonder if guys feel like this all the time. Or maybe if everyone feels like this all the time - everyone besides me - and that's why people act like such half-wits.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“I sound like an idiot. But what else am I supposed to say? My parents are getting a divorce?
I'm practically flunking drawing and literature?
My best friend's barely speaking to me and changes the subject when I ask where she was on Saturday night?
I think about you all the time and I want your body?”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something.

A milkshake.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“And then he's grabbing my hand, and pulling me into a storage room they use for art supplies. And he puts his finger to his lips, and the walls are filled with pads of paper and boxes of colored pencils and jars of paint,
and I'm laughing
and he shuts the door behind us
and leans up against it to stop anyone coming in
and like he's trying to get up his nerve now that he's started something,
before we've ever gone to the dumplings and the movies—
he leans in and kisses me.
His lips are cold. The kiss is soft. He has gum in his mouth, and he stops, and giggles nervously, and takes it out and throws it in the trash can,
and looks like he feels embarrassed to have kissed me with the gum,
but I don't care,
and so now I kiss him,
and he's tall enough that he has to bend down to get to me,
and I put my hand on his neck, which is smooth and warm,
and we kiss for a minute in the storage room,and I want to run my hands up his shirt suddenly—
but I don't.
He pulls away for a second and touches my cheek.
“I thought you'd never ask,” he whispers.
“I thought I never would either,” I say, “but I did.”
“Good job,” he says, and kisses me again.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“learned helplessness?”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“It's the opposite of love.” Me. Talking without planning to.
“Hmm? How so?”
“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, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything