Replica Quotes

“Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“A strange and baffling truth: that the people we're supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“They would face it together, as they were then: turned human by joy, by a belonging that felt just like freedom.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still found stars comforting, especially in their sameness. A sky full of burning replicas.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“But it was true she had never hurt anyone to get what she wanted. Was that what made her less than human?”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“When Lyra read, it was as if a series of small windows open in the back of her mind, flooding her with light and fresh air and visions of other places, other lives, other, period.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“She'd also learned that curiosity lead to disappointment: that it was better not to want, not to look, not to wonder.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“As if they each belonged two separate realities that only coexisted momentarily”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“Monsters, they call us. Demons.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“So we're different. Who cares? We chose to escape together. We chose to stay together. We chose each other, didn't we?”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“He smiled, and behind his eyes were doors that opened and said come in.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“Sometimes, on sleepless nights, we wonder if they’re right.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica

“She knew that there were electrical currents in the body and was what she was reminded of now. of currents flowing between them, of thousands of lights.”
― Lauren Oliver, Replica