“As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“If she could see the beauty of this underground world, and appreciate what it means: the music, the dancing, the feeling of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Mmm, butt bagels." Elody reaches into the bag and pulls out a bagel, half squashed, then makes a big deal of taking… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you."… — 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
“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — 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
