And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close… — 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
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
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at… — 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're my hero," we both say at the same time. I don't hear Kent move, but all of a sudden his… — 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
“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
“Parents teach you a lot of things, but the most important thing they teach you is this: how people will fuck you… — 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
“ And kissing Kent, because that's when I realized that time doesn't matter. That's when I realized that certain moments go on… — 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
“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
“I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly. “Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time for this. We don’t have… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“For a moment I am jealous: He has grown up here, fearless, happy. Perhaps he will never even know about the world… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You… — 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
