“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
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — 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
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire… — 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
“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
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
“is the most deadly of all evils, you can die of love or lack of it.” — 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
“"...love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.” — 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
“His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world...So I'll be happy… — 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
“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
“Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're… — 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
“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
