For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it… — 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
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This… — 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
I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we… — 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
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
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
I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It strikes me how small everything is, our whole world, everything with a meaning - our stores and our raids and our… — 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
“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world-your little… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through… — 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
..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
“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
“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
“So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and… — 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
“Life, the relentless mechanism of existing – isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I'm not even sure whether I'm missing my mother, or simply the old routine of my life: a life of school and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said. "Well, Choices are supposed… — 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- is… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in… — 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 think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Do you want any breakfast, Sam?” my mom asks. I never eat breakfast at home, but my mom still asks me every… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deeper in the city a motor is running, a distant, earthy growl, like an animal panting. in a few hours the… — 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
“It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.”… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to… — 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
