"....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning……" — Lauren Oliver
"....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake."
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Lauren Oliver
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528 Quotes by Lauren Oliver
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No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.
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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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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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