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Life Quotes by Lauren Oliver

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Oliver notices that tiny flaws in a hand‑woven rug mirror the special pattern of everyday life. She points out that life isn’t centered on any one person; it keeps moving forward regardless. The key, she says, is to find and hold onto the things that truly matter.

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“existence depends on order.”

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Nobody ever said life was fair.

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“Life will go on.”

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Life isn't life if you just float through it.

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“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.”

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“upon layers of life, always something more, new, deeper.”

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“Home is where I built my life. - Henry Morbower”

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“Every choice is limited,' I snap. 'That's life.”

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I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

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The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.

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Every choice is limited. That's life.

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And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very…

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You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal…

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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…

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“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get…

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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from…

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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it…

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Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

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Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed…

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“I'm not even sure whether I'm missing my mother, or simply the old routine of my life: a life of school and…

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“I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is…

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“Life, the relentless mechanism of existing – isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after…

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“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's…

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I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being…

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“The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in…

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“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get…

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“Do you want any breakfast, Sam?” my mom asks. I never eat breakfast at home, but my mom still asks me every…

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But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to…

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Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days…

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“mentally try to add up all the things I’ve done in my life, but no clear picture emerges, nothing that will tell…

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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…

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The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to…

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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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“It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with…

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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our…

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“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”

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“It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable”

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We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life…

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