Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
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Lauren Oliver
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Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

By Lauren Oliver

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

By Lauren Oliver

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

By Lauren Oliver

I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you."

By Lauren Oliver

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

By Lauren Oliver

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.

By Lauren Oliver

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

By Lauren Oliver

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

By Lauren Oliver

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to

By Lauren Oliver

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

By Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

By Lauren Oliver

He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

By Lauren Oliver

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

By Lauren Oliver

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

By Lauren Oliver
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