“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 that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“mentally try to add up all the things I’ve done in my life, but no clear picture emerges, nothing that will tell… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. — 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
“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
“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
Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical… — 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
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
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
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
“Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths. — 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
“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
I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy… — 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
“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
“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
