E. Lockhart

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Emily Jenkins (born September 13, 1967), who sometimes uses the pen name E. Lockhart, is an American writer of children's picture books, young-adult novels, and adult fiction. She is known best for the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars.

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On some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.

—E. Lockhart in The Boy Book

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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 in Fly on the Wall

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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed" — because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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I can't forget things, or ignore them—bad things that happen. I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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