Promise Quotes by Lauren Oliver

10 Promise quotes by Lauren Oliver

Oliver’s take on promise feels like a quiet promise in a coming‑of‑age story—bright, tentative, and full of possibility. These ten lines give a quick taste of her optimistic narrative style.

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Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

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This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

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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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“won’t go wrong.” Hana stands up and stares at me for a moment. “I promise,” she says slowly, giving each word weight,…

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Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain…

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That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away…

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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes…

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“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if…

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Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and…

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“Promise me we'll stay together, okay?" His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes…

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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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