“And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“For a minute he stands there, looking at me, and I can tell that he knows why I'm crying, and he understands,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust—and also to make you feel so whole? The” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“What am I going to do?” Coral asks. “Stay here,” I say. “Watch. Cover me if something goes wrong.” “That’s bullshit,” she… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his… — 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
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and… — 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
