"Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it……" — Lauren Oliver
"Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair."
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Lauren Oliver
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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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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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