"willing me to understand: that people should be……" — Lauren Oliver
"willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead."
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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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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags…
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart…
— Maya Angelou
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People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is…
— Paul Reiser
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands…
— Mark Twain
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
— Janet Morris
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink…
— Aristotle
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner…
— Rajneesh
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We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
— Howard Schultz
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People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you…
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