I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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Lauren Oliver
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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David Foster Wallace
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
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Cassandra Clare
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
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Zayn Malik
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his...
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Oliver
If there is one sin–or rather one waste–it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.
I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.
When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.
I try to make the music give people a chance to become engrossed with what they hear enough to possibly experience things they've probably experienced on their own but don't normally let themselves go so as to feel them fully.
A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.
