“ "You're my hero," we both say at the same time. I don't hear Kent move, but all of a sudden his… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Durante un momento siento una punzada de tristeza. Ya he tenido que renunciar a tanto, a tantas vidas y a tantos yos…… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color and I've always liked it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“won’t go wrong.” Hana stands up and stares at me for a moment. “I promise,” she says slowly, giving each word weight,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — 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
The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That was the first time my world exploded. The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I've known time to stretch out like rings expanding outward over water; I've also known it to rush by with such force… — 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
“That's when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“ And kissing Kent, because that's when I realized that time doesn't matter. That's when I realized that certain moments go on… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. If you hear the past speaking… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“If she could see the beauty of this underground world, and appreciate what it means: the music, the dancing, the feeling of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“For a moment the mole let his disappointment show on his snout. Then he grunted, "You're much smarter than you smell." Liza… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Parents teach you a lot of things, but the most important thing they teach you is this: how people will fuck you… — 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
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“...and for a second I feel an overwhelming sense of joy, and I think she's done it, she's flying, and time seems… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“For the first time it occurs to me that this, really, might have been the point of the walls and borders, the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It seems impossibly, unbelievably long ago—when I could sit in a room with carpet, when we could spend days messing around, doing… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You see, I was looking for answers then. I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you -… — 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
