"I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls."
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Lauren Oliver quotes (page 26 of 27)
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"We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another."
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"This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience."
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"For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--"
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"But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward."
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"But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe."
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"Nobody ever said life was fair."
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"I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky."
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"I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it."
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"Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore."
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"But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
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"It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting."
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"Happiness is found when no one is looking"
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"He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice."
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"it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed."
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"It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt."
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"Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going."
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"Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration . . . And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought."
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"He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years."
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"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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