“And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“ In one,Einstein is pictured over the words GRAVITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you. Alex. When you have it. Alex. And when you don't. Alex.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge;… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. That’s bad enough. The Book of Shhh… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves… — 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
