“They are like to plants that have grown around each other- they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Who the hell calls at two in the morning?" "Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says. "Very funny,” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“...she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things... It kills you both when you have it and when you don't” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“If I could make it better I would,” he says. In some ways it’s a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure… — 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
Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a shadow; the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“If Conrad remembered the skinny, frightened girl he'd held for one brief moment on a frigid Boston street corner, he showed no… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. That’s bad enough. The Book of Shhh… — 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
And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“ In one,Einstein is pictured over the words GRAVITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE.” — 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
