Lauren Oliver Quotes — Page 24

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Courageous

“It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.”

Lying Hurt Wall

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Lauren Oliver

Author

Courageous

“I know some of you are Thinking maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing Fringers, let me ask you Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse Then what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse Than what you do?”

Thinking Doe Let Me

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Love

“She was mine before she was yours.”

Mines

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Love

“She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.”

Hug Warm

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Vulnerable

“Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.”

Dream Moving Rip

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Lonely

“No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.”

People Guy Ice Cream

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Spiritual

“Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.”

Water Fingers

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Love

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”

Return Requiem

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Vulnerable

“I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.”

Thinking War Feelings

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Calm

“No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.”

Want Rooms Guests

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Hopeful

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”

Happiness Fiction Pretending

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Curious

“This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.”

People

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