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Past Quotes by Lauren Oliver
- The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
- I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying…
- Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free…
- Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine,…
- In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back.…
- But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
- Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our…
- It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing,…
- Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like…
- This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
- We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
- It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
- it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like…
- ...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps;…
- For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who…
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach