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Blind Quotes by Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver’s take on blindness offers a concise look at how perception shapes our inner world. Though the list is short, each line invites you to consider what it means to truly 'see' without eyes, making it a handy starter for anyone curious about this perspective.

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An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

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This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit.…

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“We’re striking out mostly blind, using a compass and a series of old sketches that have been passed back”

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Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts…

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“will have to go in blind, and pray that there are no guards at this entrance. This”

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“All human eyes are useless. You see only what you expect to see, and nothing more; and what is the use of…

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They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear…

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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world -…

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“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little…

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We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive.…

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They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester,…

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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

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We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will…

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“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…

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“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.”

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People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had…

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Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

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I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble…

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“Julian is somewhere among those lights, in that blur of people and buildings. I wonder whether he's scared. I wonder whether he's thinking of…

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A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a…

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“She’s the kind of person who makes you feel drunk just by being around her, like suddenly the world’s edges are dulled and all…

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“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?…

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..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…

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“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

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