If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. — 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’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy? — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you… — 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
This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire… — 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… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
…love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire… — 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
“Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go… — 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
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
“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
“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share
