"Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the……" — Lauren Oliver
"Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life."
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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient…
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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