I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it:… — 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 devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world...So I'll be happy… — 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
This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that… — 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
