“It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you. Alex. When you have it. Alex. And when you don't. Alex.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — 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
“Lord, help us root our feet to the earth And our eyes to the road And always remember the fallen angels Who,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you know." I'm so surprised by the question it takes me a… — 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
“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
“I remember that he split two maple-wing seeds and struck one on his nose and one on mine, telling me that this… — 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
“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge;… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.” — 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
