“Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“I guess that's the really nice thing about disappearing: the part where people look for you and beg you to come home.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“You broke my heart.
I fell for you and you broke my heart.
Period, done, end of story.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“The funny thing about almost-dying is that afterward everyone expects you to jump on the happy train and take time to chase butterflies through grassy fields or see rainbows in puddles of oil on the highway. It’s a miracle, they’ll say with an expectant look, as if you’ve been given a big old gift and you better not disappoint Grandma by pulling a face when you unwrap the box and find a lumpy, misshapen sweater.
That’s what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you’re supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you’d rather stay in bed and do nothing.
The truth is this: it doesn’t take any skill to almost-die, or to almost-live, either.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“That's the problem with therapists: you have to pay them to say the same dumb shit other people will tell you for free.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“This is it: somehow, in these pictures, the mystery of the accident is contained, and the explanation for Dara's subsequent behavior, for the silences and disappearances. Don't ask me how. I just do. If you don't understand that, I guess you've never had a sister”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“He doesn't love me. He never loved me. All along, he's loved her.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“How convenient if you could see what was wrong with people right away, if they wore their sicknesses and crimes on their skin like tattoos.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed,”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“We stay like that for a long time, side by side, holding hands, until the crickets, obeying the same ancient law that pulls the sun from the sky and throws the moon up after it, that strips autumn down to winter and pushes spring up afterward, obeying the law of closure and new beginnings, send their voices up from the silence, and sing.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Memory is like that, too. We build careful bridges. But they're weaker than we think.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Still more people are arriving:so many people, it makes you wonder how all of them could exist, how there can be so many individual lives and stories and needs and disappointments.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“You see, even then, I knew. It wasn't a trick. It wasn't a show. Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.
Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“And for a split second I find her, silhouetted by the sky, arms outstretched like she's making snow angels in the air or simply laughing, turning in place; for a split second, she comes to me as the clouds, the sun, the wind touching my face and telling me that somehow, someday, it will be okay.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“There’s a fundamental rule of the universe that goes like this: if you’re running late, you will miss your bus. You’ll also miss your bus if it’s raining or if you have somewhere really important to go, like the SATs or a driver’s test.
Dara and I have a word for that kind of luck: crapdiment. Just crap smeared on top of more crap.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“I hope she's alive. Even more, I believe.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Everyone has the pushed and prodded and tugged look that rich people have, like they're just giant pieces of taffy, ready to be molded.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“I love you. Mom loves you. Dad loves you.
That doesn't count. You guys have to love me. It's practically illegal not to. You probably just love me so you won't go to jail.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“Magnetism, my chem teacher would call it. The seeking for a thing of its pair.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from Vanishing Girls
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“As J.D. Salinger’s character Seymour says in Franny and Zooey, “This happiness is strong stuff!” Happiness is the strongest stuff in the world. It is more energizing than a cup of hot espresso on a cold morning. It is more mind-expanding than a dose of acid. It is more intoxicating than a glass of champagne under the stars.”
― Steve Chandler, quote from 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Heaven lies around us in our infancy.”
― William Golding, quote from Darkness Visible
“The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Scourge of Muirwood
“There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil. Science could be used by whoever has the power to use it and desire to use it. If you make people knowledgeable about these sciences and don't point out this fact, then you're saying, I withdraw from the battle, from the discussion of the ethics involved. I just stick to the facts. And that of course means that you've surrendered to the strongest forces. You say you're neutral in what you do, you aren't that concerned with it. If the Pentagon is using your discoveries, that's not your problem. It's unavoidable that you have some responsibility, it seems to me, regardless of what you teach or what your subject is or what your skill is. Whatever you have to contribute has a social dimension. And I think it's ineffective to try to impose that on anybody. Sharing it with them is one thing, but trying to impose it is another. You honestly say these are my ideas and I have a right to my opinion, and if I have a right to my opinion then you have a right to your opinion.
"You can't have an individual right. It has to be a universal right. I have no rights that everybody else doesn't have. There's no right I could claim that anybody else in the world can't claim, and I have to fight for their exercising that right just like I have to fight for my own. That doesn't mean I have to impose my ideas on people, but it means I have a responsibility to provide whatever light I can on the subject and share my ideas with people.”
― Myles Horton, quote from We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
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