I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and… — 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
That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“And I realize, that this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It was the final, explosive demonstration of summer, the line in the sand, a desperate attempt to hold fall forever at bay.… — 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
I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.”… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror… — 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
