I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You didn’t need to go charging in there like some kind of hero.” I feel a flicker of anger. I hold on… — 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
“"...love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. The promise was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world -… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that… — 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
“I know that life isn’t life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point – the only point… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“And still the sun rises and clouds mass and drift and people shop for groceries and toilets flush and blinds go up… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world -… — 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
“. . . Liesl & Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s weird how much people change... It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids… — 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… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very… — 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
