Lauren Oliver Quotes — Page 23

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Author

Heartbroken

“My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.”

People Thinking Love Is

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Lauren Oliver

Author

Love

“Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.”

Thinking Numbers Decision

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Grateful

“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”

Kind Love Is

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Vulnerable

“I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.”

Would Be Cures

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Love

“Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.”

World Danger Brushes

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Melancholic

“Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.”

Ideas Past Wall

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Spiritual

“I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.”

Light Feelings Laughing

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Love

“"Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?" "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say. "I promise," he whispers.”

Voice Forever Fog

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Melancholic

“....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.”

Mistake Brain Healthy

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Funny

“Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450”

Girl Hero Princess

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Melancholic

“Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.”

Forever Tiny Spinning

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Melancholic

“This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.”

Heart Cities Dust

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