Heart Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

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“she’d had to get good at being crippled.”

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my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

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My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

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“She was always different from other people—more outspoken, more independent, more fearless.”

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Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

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“...she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her.”

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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

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“She'd also learned that curiosity lead to disappointment: that it was better not to want, not to look, not to wonder.”

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This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to…

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it seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while…

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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear…

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“She thought all you needed to do - all any of them needed - was to get out. But maybe you carried…

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“Her fierce and fearful friend --who loved country music and cherry Pop Tarts and singing in public and the color pink, who…

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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have…

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“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would…

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Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on,…

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And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can…

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Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily…

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I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was…

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My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you…

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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her…

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My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown…

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Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf,…

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Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better…

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Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his…

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I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps…

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“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.…

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I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read…

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