Color Quotes by Lauren Oliver

9 Color quotes by Lauren Oliver

Oliver’s reflections on palette and feeling are captured in nine brief quotes. This short selection offers a focused glimpse into her perspective on color.

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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

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I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting…

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I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the…

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Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray…

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It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red.…

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When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all…

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I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly."…

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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…

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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of…

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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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