"But you can build a future out of……" — Lauren Oliver
"But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins."
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528 Quotes by Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver has 528 quotes on this site.
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No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would…
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on…
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And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that…
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Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
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My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a…
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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…
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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest…
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You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.
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People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden…
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When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad.…
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I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage…
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More Airy Quotes
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
— William Shakespeare
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
— Alexander Smith
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or…
— Samuel Johnson
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
— Paul Cezanne
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and…
— Eric Alterman
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
— Tori Amos
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that…
— Edmond Halley
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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