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Lauren Oliver Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's as though the shadows were an ocean, and the tide has gone out leaving a barren, rigid landscape of empty streets.
She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding.
Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.
She could be happier.
She could be happier.
Who the hell calls at two in the morning?"
"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says.
"Very funny,
"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says.
"Very funny,
It was strange how once you saw a rat wearing clothes, it became slightly disgusting to imagine the animal naked.
We will have to trust too-that the world won't end, that tomorrow will come, and that truth will come too.
Your mother loved you. Do you understand? She loved you. She still loves you. She wanted you to be safe.
What was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain?
I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.
For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should
never have asked him to cross.
never have asked him to cross.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
the desire to see him, to kiss him again, to let him put his fingers in my hair - is a monstrous, constant, crawling feeling in my blood and bones. It
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'
Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
This was what true fear was
that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn.
Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
I'm not sure whether he's looking for a frozen dinner or just taking advantage of the free cold air.
If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.
The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult. But that was okay too.
If you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.
People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders.
That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.
I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same.
It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid.
There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it.