Lauren Oliver Quotes

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

What hurts us is what heals us.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

My life was pretty rough.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

To the stars through thorns.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.