Lauren Oliver Quotes — Page 21

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Hopeful

“Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.”

People Two Past

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Lauren Oliver

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Lonely

“It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)”

Thinking Matter Wish

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Hopeful

“The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.”

Tomorrow

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Optimistic

“There are more of us than you think.”

Thinking

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Lonely

“I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short”

Eye Ugly Green

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Grateful

“..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.”

Beautiful Unique Everyday Routine

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Inspired

“My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.”

Feelings Can Do Stomach

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Confident

“There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.”

Today Insecure Awkward

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Calm

“The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.”

Sun Lazy Horizon

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Nostalgic

“When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.”

Littles Party Boys

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Grateful

“I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.”

Fall Color Horse

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Angry

“No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.”

Girl Boys Confused

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