Break Quotes by Lauren Oliver

10 Break quotes by Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver’s short collection on break captures the subtle shifts that happen when we step back. Across ten succinct thoughts, she highlights how a pause can spark personal evolution.

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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

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It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can…

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Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the…

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He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make…

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And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you…

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I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily…

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Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a…

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What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your…

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...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started…

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That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat…

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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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