Lauren Oliver Quotes — Page 27

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Sad

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”

Lying Might Disease

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Lauren Oliver

Author

Spiritual

“I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop”

Heart Feet Dust

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Love

“He looked at me like I was beautiful.”

Beautiful

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Hopeful

“I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.”

Needs Light

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Love

“I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.”

Love Fall Sleep

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Funny

“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.”

Eye Lazy Popularity

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Angry

“Every choice is limited. That's life.”

Choices

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Hopeful

“Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.”

Water Air

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Curious

“People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.”

People House Doors

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Courageous

“No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.”

World Love Hell

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Hopeful

“But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.”

Life Winning Track

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Funny

“My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.”

Cute Allies My Boyfriend

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