For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here. And there are more… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was… — 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
“It’s us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it’s absurd, at that moment I feel… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“... sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes… — 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
“Before, Alex seemed far away. Now the room is full of him: He is so close I can't breathe...move or speak or… — 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
But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped… — 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
“And I realize, that this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“red mean?” For a moment I see fear flashing in Hunter’s eyes, and suddenly I am cold again. “Red means run,” he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The cancer was back, this time pressing at the base of my brain stem.” His hands tighten on the sides of the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Stupid, stupid-to be so careless with our time, to believe we had so much of it left.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an… — 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
