Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even… — 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
Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of them and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely… — 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
People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is 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
