Top 100 Lauren Oliver Quotes
#1. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
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#2. She fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her.
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#3. Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?"
"I'm sure.
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#4. 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.
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#5. If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
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#6. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
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#7. For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
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#8. Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome.
It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.
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#9. I feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
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#10. Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place.
This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.
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#11. I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
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#13. That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I'm a nonperson, a shadow, a ghost. Even before the accident I'm not sure that I was a whole person - that's what I'm realizing now. And I'm not sure where the damage begins.
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#16. I wish I could close my eyes and be
blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.
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#17. And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
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#19. This is how we grow: not up, but out, like trees
swelling to encompass all these stories, the promises and lies and bribes and habits.
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#20. Just for that moment, I feel as though I belong here.
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#22. But his enthusiasm is infectious. The whole park is buzzing with it; a sound perceived but not exactly heard, a sense of anticipation like the moment just before all the crickets start singing at night.
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#23. This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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#24. Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
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#25. People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
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#26. That's the whole point, after all: There's no going back.
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#27. She knew that there were electrical currents in the body and was what she was reminded of now. of currents flowing between them, of thousands of lights.
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#28. He has had to learn to hide it, even more than most of us. Somewhere, I think, there is a center to him. It glows like a coal being slowly crushed into diamond, weighed down by layers and layers of surface.
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#30. I just want to be normal, like everybody else."
"Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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#31. My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn.
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#33. Frank keeps massaging his gun, and something about the motion - gentle, almost, like he's willing it to life - makes me feel sick.
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#34. The idea - the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second - is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.
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#35. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
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#36. So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'
Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
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#37. Everyone knows that only wishes that are kept secret will ever come true.
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#38. Live free or die.
Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips.
Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.
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#39. Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
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#40. My mind is on autopilot and my thoughts are a million miles away
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#41. He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
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#42. I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life.
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#43. They're pretty subtle. Only a few dozen of them. I can see how you might not have noticed.
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#44. If you draw a circle, there will always be an inside and an outside, and unless you're a total nut job, it's pretty easy to see which is which. It just happens.
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#45. It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.
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#47. If secrets were stuffing, the woman would be done up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
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#48. It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside down.
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#49. There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
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#50. One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
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#51. She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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#53. That's the problem with therapists: you have to pay them to say the same dumb shit other people will tell you for free.
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#54. Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.
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#56. By then the streets are empty and quiet, night about to fall, curfew about to come down like a giant warm embrace, keeping us all in our places, keeping us all safe.
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#57. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But
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#58. This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
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#59. 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.
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#60. You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.
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#62. How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.
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#63. That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.
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#64. Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. That thing - the heart of hearts of me, the core of my core - stretches and unfurls even further, soaring like a flag: making me feel stronger than I ever have before. I
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#69. The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon.
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#70. Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
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#71. What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.
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#73. It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing
her own version of resisting.
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#75. Nothing in the world is ever really nothing, and everything is possible in some way ...
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#76. I was thinking of Lena. Of course. I was always thinking of Lena.
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#77. His neck is thin, and his Adam's apple prominent, as though he has swallowed a peach pit at some point in his life and it has been lodged there ever since.
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#78. Sometimes it is necessary that individuals are sacrificed for the the health of the whole.
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#80. In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.
Alex, come back.
There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
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#82. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back against my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. Julian fumbles with the
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#83. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you find out you hardly know them at all. I feel exhilarated, kind of like I'm being spun around a whirlpool, circling closer and closer around the same people and the same events but seeing things from different angles.
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#84. Anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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#85. ...even though he's supposed to be obsessively in love with me. Not that I want him to be in love with me, obviously. It's just a constant that's always been comforting, in a weird way.
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#86. The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.
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#89. I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again
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#92. That's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her.
like burning alive.
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#93. I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
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#94. It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
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#95. Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation.
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#96. Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.
I told on them.
I was jealous.
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#97. Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy?
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#99. I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.
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