Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it… — 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
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
“It seems impossibly, unbelievably long ago—when I could sit in a room with carpet, when we could spend days messing around, doing… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you -… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Durante un momento siento una punzada de tristeza. Ya he tenido que renunciar a tanto, a tantas vidas y a tantos yos…… — 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
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered… — 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
Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day… — 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
For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us… — 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
“... 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
“You see, I was looking for answers then. I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that… — 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
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
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
“That’s when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of… — 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
