“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“"...love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I'm not even sure whether I'm missing my mother, or simply the old routine of my life: a life of school and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Life, the relentless mechanism of existing – isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.”… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deeper in the city a motor is running, a distant, earthy growl, like an animal panting. in a few hours the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Do you want any breakfast, Sam?” my mom asks. I never eat breakfast at home, but my mom still asks me every… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You didn’t need to go charging in there like some kind of hero.” I feel a flicker of anger. I hold on… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“My aunt Carol hasn’t heard her say a word in the whole six years and three months of Grace’s life—not a single syllable. Carol… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
“Julian is somewhere among those lights, in that blur of people and buildings. I wonder whether he's scared. I wonder whether he's thinking of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
“She’s the kind of person who makes you feel drunk just by being around her, like suddenly the world’s edges are dulled and all… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
