“red mean?” For a moment I see fear flashing in Hunter’s eyes, and suddenly I am cold again. “Red means run,” he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The cancer was back, this time pressing at the base of my brain stem.” His hands tighten on the sides of the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Stupid, stupid-to be so careless with our time, to believe we had so much of it left.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“... sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you're dead… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Lena.” Alex’s voice is stronger, more forceful now, and it finally stops me. He turns so that we’re face-to-face. At that moment… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you."… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city with a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal,… — 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
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the… — 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
“Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered… — 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
That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“He looks me up and down like I’m a grapefruit he’s evaluating in the supermarket for ripeness, and for a moment he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it… — 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
