“Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it.” — 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
“is the most deadly of all evils, you can die of love or lack of it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. A beautiful word, when you really think about it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That's okay," she says at last, returning her gaze to the fire. "He was still in love with you, anyway.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the… — 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
“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
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
“...even though he's supposed to be obsessively in love with me. Not that I want him to be in love with me,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I said that without love, there could also be no hate: without hate, no violence. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Her fierce and fearful friend --who loved country music and cherry Pop Tarts and singing in public and the color pink, who… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you're dead… — 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
“There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she… — 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
“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
“(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even… — 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
“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
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
“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
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“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
I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free… — 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
Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life. — 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
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
“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
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
