Genuine Fraud Quotes

“For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Do you think a person is as bad as her worst actions?...I mean, do our worst actions define us when we're alive? Or, do you think human beings are better than the very worst things we have ever done?”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don’t have one.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“If only she could go back in time, Jule felt, she would be a better person. Or a different person. She would be more herself. Or maybe less herself.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your body. They would never leave you, no matter how you looked, no matter who loved or didn’t love you.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“She didn't know if she could love her own mangled, strange heart. She wanted someone else to do it for her, to see it beating behind her ribs and to say, I can see your true self. It is there, and it is rare and worthy. I love you.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“I am the center of the story now, Jule said to herself. I don’t have to weigh very little, wear very little, or have my teeth fixed. I am the center.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“She looked the same, looked just like anyone, but she saw the world differently after that. To be a physically powerful woman—it was something. You could go anywhere, do anything, if you were difficult to hurt.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t static. It’s an adaptation.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“We’re not friends, Ms. Williams. You’re lying to me half the time, and I’m lying to you all the time.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“-Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them. Don't you think?
-I'm not letting them have my cake. That's my bloody cake and I'm eating it.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“People with money love Gershwin.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Other people adapt to you, asshole. You think there’s no adapting going on, but you’re fucking blind, Forrest. It’s all around you, all the time.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“They want you to be small and silent. Good was just another word for don't fight back.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
She believed that the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one.
She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.
She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won't learn in college.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Jule had many rare talents. She worked hard and really had so damn much to offer. She knew all that. So why did she feel worthless at the same time?”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“You think it’s normal to get what you want all the time,” said Jule. “For things to be easy. But it isn’t. Most people don’t get what they want, like, ever. They have doors shut in their faces. They have to strive, all the time. They don’t live in your magical land of two-seater cars and perfect teeth and traveling to Italy and fur coats.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, ‘I’m starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!’ ‘I can’t walk, I’m paralyzed, but still I see the bright side of life, happy happy!’ A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Now I have you, which makes me significantly less mental.” “Less mental is good.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“For the college essay, she wrote that in these stories, being orphaned is a precondition for the making of a hero. She also said those comic book heroes aren’t simple heroes, but ‘complicated ones who make moral compromises in the same tradition as the orphans in Victorian narratives.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Imogen was a New York City child: open-minded in a way Jule had seen only on television, apparently utterly confident in her own desirability as a friend and hostess.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“Jule had loved Immie Sokoloff as well as she knew how to love anyone. She really had.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“She had done the deed with credible efficiency. With style, even. She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. There had not been a single witness. She had left no blood anywhere.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud

“I grew up with very normal, stable people,” Brooke continued. “We acted normal all day long in my family. So normal I wanted to stab my eyes out. So I’m like an expert. And you? You are not normal. You should think about getting help for it, is what I’m saying.”
― E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud