"I am growing stronger. I am a stone……" — Lauren Oliver
"I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire."
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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 Charred Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and…
— Kathleen Raine
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In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father…
— Mark Twain
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I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force…
— Emily Dickinson
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Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than…
— John Muir
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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put…
— Jamie Oliver
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I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I…
— Jill Scott
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The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney."…
— Lorrie Moore
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Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge…
— Agatha Christie
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Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of…
— Arundhati Roy
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