Quotes by Lauren Oliver

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.

Brain

Healthy

Mistake

…and once at Hana’s house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents’ liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn’t like it, didn’t like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.

Laughing

Sick

Sweet

…if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

Coffee

Home

Missing

…into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

Hate

Refusal

…the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

Glasses

Pain

Past

..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life’s special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.

Beautiful

Everyday Routine

Unique

“And I love you too.” His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. “You should know that. You have to know that.”

Lips

Love You

Should

“Everyone is asleep. They’ve all been asleep for years. You seemed… awake.” Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. “I’m tired of sleeping.”

Eye

Sleep

Tired

“Kent?” I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. “Yeah?” “Promise you’ll stay here with me?” I say. “I promise,” he whispers.

Fog

Forever

Voice

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

Best Kept Secrets

Good Friend

Keeping Secrets

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Always Love You

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Animal

Answers

Anything Is Possible

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Army

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Artist

Atoms

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Autumn

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Bad Day

Beautiful

Bed

Before I Fall

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Believe

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Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver

…if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

…into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

…the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

“And I love you too.” His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. “You should know that. You have to know that.”

“Everyone is asleep. They’ve all been asleep for years. You seemed… awake.” Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. “I’m tired of sleeping.”

“Kent?” I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. “Yeah?” “Promise you’ll stay here with me?” I say. “I promise,” he whispers.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

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