"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young……" — Lauren Oliver
"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid."
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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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