“even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“We were lying on the blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks, like we always did that summer. Lena was on her… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it? You can't… — 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
“What am I going to do?” Coral asks. “Stay here,” I say. “Watch. Cover me if something goes wrong.” “That’s bullshit,” she… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Lena: I just want to be happy. I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Alex: Are you sure that being… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“For a minute he stands there, looking at me, and I can tell that he knows why I'm crying, and he understands,… — 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
