“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. Someday, she might be called on to jump again. And she would do… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don’t… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That was torture--being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it? — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive. — 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
“Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“She knew, now, that there was always light – beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“So: outside, and to the black rush of the Presumpscot River. To freedom. For me, the world was beginning.” — 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
