“I’m frightened. This is how it starts. Even if he is cured, even if he is safe—the fact is, I’m not safe,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“When I'm running, there's always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets,… — 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
“You don’t have to be worried, okay? You don’t have to be scared.” His voice is twinkling again. “I’m not flirting with… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly. “Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time for this. We don’t have… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick… — 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
“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
“It was craziness. Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.” — 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 Image
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 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 turned upside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
