Lauren Oliver Quotes

But time has set its maggot on their track.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

The surest poison is time.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

Live or die but don't poison everything.

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.