Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting… — 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
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
The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you… — 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
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as… — 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
“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
