'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I feel an ache in my throat, but I manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel… — 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
For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods… — 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
“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
“Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper.… — 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
It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go… — 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
“Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special. Once Hana told me that she… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come.… — 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
