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Trying Quotes by Lauren Oliver
- This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
- As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie,…
- Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word --…
- I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty…
- You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin…
- 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…
- I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised.…
- You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am…
- 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.…
- We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
- I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him
- Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
- We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever…
- You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash