Lauren Oliver quotes - page 4

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again. (Lauren Oliver)
That's what you do for family. Anything. View quote
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That's the thing about faith. It works. View quote
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We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses. View quote
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Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind. View quote
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Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see. View quote
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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. View quote
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There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry. View quote
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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. View quote
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Nobody ever said life was fair. View quote
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I've been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him. (Lauren Oliver)
willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. View quote
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Something must die so that others can live. View quote
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That's all I want. Just you and me. Always. View quote
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. View quote
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It's the way he says my name: like music. View quote
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Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. View quote
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Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. View quote
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Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison. View quote
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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. View quote
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Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. (Lauren Oliver)
I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky. View quote
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I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took. View quote
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The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side. View quote
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I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you. View quote
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