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Lauren Oliver Inspirational Quotes (293)

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I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .
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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.
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Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.
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The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.
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When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
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That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.
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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.
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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
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Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.
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He looked at me like I was beautiful.
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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
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And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
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I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
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I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
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People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
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That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.
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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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