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World Quotes by Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver says love can turn the whole world into something bigger than itself. She describes love as a razor‑thin edge that cuts through the center of life. At night, when most people sleep, she feels the world belongs entirely to her friends and herself.

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It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

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It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.

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“A world without love is also a world without stakes.”

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“A free world is also a world of fracture”

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An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

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Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never…

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And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she…

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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the…

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Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts…

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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

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With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was…

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I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time…

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It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one…

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Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The…

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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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No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be…

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It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely…

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Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They…

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But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even…

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As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes…

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Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a…

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Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us…

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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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You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can…

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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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That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a…

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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form…

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They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester,…

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Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit.…

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That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

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But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

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But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the…

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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world -…

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It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess…

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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge;…

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I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff…

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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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Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

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…

“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…

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a…

“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…

“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?…

..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…

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