I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would) — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — 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
“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
