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Remember everyone's path is different. Amid constant broadcast & comparison, it's the most loving thing you can do for yourself. #LOveTip By Lauren Oliver

We're standing in the middle of a graveyard. Alex By Lauren Oliver

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law. By Lauren Oliver

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. By Lauren Oliver

But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track By Lauren Oliver

Waste today, want tomorrow... By Lauren Oliver

Love grew inside me like a delicious secret. By Lauren Oliver

Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you. By Lauren Oliver

What can I say about Trenton? A sad sprout of a human being, halfway between a boy and a broccoli. By Lauren Oliver

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him. By Lauren Oliver

All human eyes are useless. You see only what you expect to see, and nothing more; and what is the use of sight like that? By Lauren Oliver

Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line. By Lauren Oliver

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. By Lauren Oliver

This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. By Lauren Oliver

If you repeat something enough, you can almost make yourself believe it. I'm By Lauren Oliver

I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same. By Lauren Oliver

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit. By Lauren Oliver

Still, the idea continued to drum through her, like the constant patter of the rain: that no one would ever love her. By Lauren Oliver

Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness. By Lauren Oliver

She was mine before she was yours. By Lauren Oliver

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. By Lauren Oliver

Roses are red, violets are blue, if I get you in bed, it would be really cool. By Lauren Oliver

The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. By Lauren Oliver

Julian will go to the gallows for us, and we will smile, and dream of victory hazy-red, soon to come, a blood-colored dawn. By Lauren Oliver

Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark. By Lauren Oliver

Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation. By Lauren Oliver

And, of course, we kiss. We kiss so much that when we're not kissing it feels weird, like I get used to breathing through his lips and into his mouth. By Lauren Oliver

He can't parade back into my life and expect me to throw confetti at his feet. By Lauren Oliver

There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future. By Lauren Oliver

You know what your problem is? You want everything to be shitty. You have a sister who loves you. Friends who love you. I love you, Heather. By Lauren Oliver

I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back. By Lauren Oliver

She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding. By Lauren Oliver

It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. By Lauren Oliver

It was like she had dropped away for a second - my best friend, my only real friend - and in her place was a stranger. That By Lauren Oliver

There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it. By Lauren Oliver

This woman who wants to lead a revolution for love and doesn't even acknowledge her own daughter By Lauren Oliver

The flyers lift and sigh in unison, like a thousand people waving white handkerchiefs, a thousand people waving good-bye. By Lauren Oliver

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode. By Lauren Oliver

He cut the insides of my eyelids with razors. By Lauren Oliver

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 ever try to keep up apart. By Lauren Oliver

Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places. By Lauren Oliver

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be. By Lauren Oliver

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. By Lauren Oliver

A name that brings a taste of sunshine, and of sunshine raising mist from the trees, and of mist reaching toward the sky. By Lauren Oliver

I've been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him By Lauren Oliver

She fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her. By Lauren Oliver

Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult. But that was okay too. By Lauren Oliver

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. By Lauren Oliver

That's okay," she says at last, returning her gaze to the fire. "He was still in love with you, anyway. By Lauren Oliver

and I'm thrown backward. I land on my left elbow, hear it crack. Pain splinters through me. A Scavenger looms over me. Impossible to say whether By Lauren Oliver

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish By Lauren Oliver

Willing me to understand: thatpeople should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boysmaybe you just have to be angry all the time. By Lauren Oliver

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. By Lauren Oliver

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. By Lauren Oliver

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him. By Lauren Oliver

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all? By Lauren Oliver

My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. By Lauren Oliver

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing. By Lauren Oliver

I feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. By Lauren Oliver

An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust. By Lauren Oliver

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doingher own version of resisting. By Lauren Oliver

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore. By Lauren Oliver

And thinking never did anybody any good, no matter what your teachers and parents and the science-club freaks tell you. By Lauren Oliver

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. By Lauren Oliver

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. By Lauren Oliver

As we walk I can hear the barrel of his gun, slapping against his thigh. By Lauren Oliver

Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own. By Lauren Oliver

Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy? By Lauren Oliver

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy? By Lauren Oliver

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast. By Lauren Oliver

Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small. By Lauren Oliver

In one,Einstein is pictured over the words GRAVITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE. By Lauren Oliver

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower By Lauren Oliver

I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. Please. By Lauren Oliver

Sometimes it is necessary that individuals are sacrificed for the the health of the whole. By Lauren Oliver

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light. By Lauren Oliver

I reached and ran a finger along her collarbones, my favorite place: like the silhouette of tiny wings. By Lauren Oliver

Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.-Lauren Oliver, Delerium By Lauren Oliver

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you. By Lauren Oliver

there will be four evaluators staring at me for close to two hours. By Lauren Oliver

She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it. By Lauren Oliver

Happiness is found when no one is looking By Lauren Oliver

It's like the smell of bread baking at Subway. You know it's not the way nature or God intended it to smell, but something about it's addictive. By Lauren Oliver

God bless Dunkin' Donuts. By Lauren Oliver

Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth. By Lauren Oliver

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense. By Lauren Oliver

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range. By Lauren Oliver

I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders. By Lauren Oliver

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped By Lauren Oliver

Their eyes were flat, incurious, and old- impossibly old, as though instead of looking forward, their eyes saw back to a distant past. By Lauren Oliver

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me. By Lauren Oliver

There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION. By Lauren Oliver

You don't know shit about me, I don't know shit about you. You don't even know shit about you. By Lauren Oliver

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 down. By Lauren Oliver

amplified siren. I make it to the old subway entrance. By Lauren Oliver

Sarah: "Not bad. You look almost human."Lena: "Thanks."Sarah: "I said almost."Lena: "Well, then, almost thanks. By Lauren Oliver

It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes. By Lauren Oliver

I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either. By Lauren Oliver

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid. By Lauren Oliver

The gun was just the go-between. It was the loneliness that got me in the end. By Lauren Oliver

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world can go to hell. By Lauren Oliver

You broke my heart.I fell for you and you broke my heart.Period, done, end of story. By Lauren Oliver

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say. By Lauren Oliver

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever. By Lauren Oliver

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess. By Lauren Oliver

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them. By Lauren Oliver

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. By Lauren Oliver

Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you.Alex.When you have it.Alex.And when you don't.Alex. By Lauren Oliver

It is war now, and armies need symbols. By Lauren Oliver

HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE A PLACE; WISE ARE THEY WHO FOLLOW THE PATH; BLESSED ARE THEY WHO OBEY THE WORD. By Lauren Oliver

I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest. By Lauren Oliver

The sun is rising, a rusty color, the color of old blood, and I'm so By Lauren Oliver

I love you. They can't take it away. By Lauren Oliver

She might be dying. The idea pleased her. By Lauren Oliver

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. By Lauren Oliver

It's too late. I've seen things ... I've lost things you can't understand. By Lauren Oliver

Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things. By Lauren Oliver

I like you.You don't know me.I want to, though. By Lauren Oliver

And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance brieflyover my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that. By Lauren Oliver

Roll up the window. I can't explain the feelings going through me, a rush like you get from laughing too hard or By Lauren Oliver

Nothing says 'I love you' like a brick through the window. By Lauren Oliver

A small part of me was glad. There's always relief in giving up. By Lauren Oliver

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone. By Lauren Oliver

Only people who have something to hide make a fuss about privacy. By Lauren Oliver

Parents teach us our very first lesson about love: that you sure as hell don't get to choose it. By Lauren Oliver

And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe. By Lauren Oliver

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. By Lauren Oliver

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war. By Lauren Oliver

It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. By Lauren Oliver

Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born. By Lauren Oliver

I'm glad the choice is made for us. I'm glad I don't have to choose-but more than that, I'm glad I don't have to make someone else choose me. By Lauren Oliver

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close. By Lauren Oliver

Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine. By Lauren Oliver

It's worse than a disease. It's a poison. By Lauren Oliver

Alex's T-shirt is red, and By Lauren Oliver

I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper. By Lauren Oliver

They'd already taken her from me once. I didn't want to lose her again. By Lauren Oliver

I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop By Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it By Lauren Oliver

At night I sleep dreamlessly. In the mornings I wake to fog. By Lauren Oliver

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away. By Lauren Oliver

Then he does the absolutely, positively unthinkable.He winks at me. By Lauren Oliver

Life will go on. By Lauren Oliver

He wasn't afraid. He just didn't care. And that was very, very different. By Lauren Oliver

That's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her.like burning alive. By Lauren Oliver

I wish I could close my eyes and beblown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. By Lauren Oliver

I wonder if you fall forever and ever and never touch down, is it still falling? By Lauren Oliver

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly. By Lauren Oliver

Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage. By Lauren Oliver

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy By Lauren Oliver

We are free to choose. By Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again. By Lauren Oliver

She has the same pinched look as her mother did. She By Lauren Oliver

I thought I would live forever too. - Before I Fall By Lauren Oliver

It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don't forget. So it becomes real. By Lauren Oliver

That's what made it sofrightening to the lawmakers: Love obeysno laws other than its own. By Lauren Oliver

I don't know exactly what to wish for: to be safe or unsafe, for things to change or for things to stay the same. By Lauren Oliver

We come from two different worlds, and we belonged to two different sides. But everything will be okay. By Lauren Oliver

He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though. By Lauren Oliver

Your parents are supposed to keep you safe. By Lauren Oliver

The mark of the procedure. A real one.Lu is cured. By Lauren Oliver

the bright, clipped voice that all nurses seem to share, like it's part of their medical training. By Lauren Oliver

We are free to choose the wrong thing. By Lauren Oliver

Just thinkin' about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ... . By Lauren Oliver

It's one of the reasons I love him. By Lauren Oliver

Until, one day, she wasn't. By Lauren Oliver

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. By Lauren Oliver

So: outside, and to the black rush of the Presumpscot River.To freedom.For me, the world was beginning. By Lauren Oliver

Lena," he says at last. "I think your mother is alive. By Lauren Oliver

If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride. By Lauren Oliver

Only humans are unpredictable. By Lauren Oliver

It's the way he says my name: like music. By Lauren Oliver

layers I've built over the past six months, past the fake Lena with her shell and her ID cards and By Lauren Oliver

I wonder if this is how people get close: They heal each other's wounds. By Lauren Oliver

If secrets were stuffing, the woman would be done up like a Thanksgiving turkey. By Lauren Oliver

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die By Lauren Oliver

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well By Lauren Oliver

On the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future. By Lauren Oliver

I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain. By Lauren Oliver

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies. By Lauren Oliver

Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead. By Lauren Oliver

Love obeys no laws other than its own. That's what always made it frightening. By Lauren Oliver

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is differentit is being alive. By Lauren Oliver

Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past. By Lauren Oliver

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. A beautiful word, when you really think about it. By Lauren Oliver

He is beautiful. By Lauren Oliver

I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. By Lauren Oliver

He makes me feel like music By Lauren Oliver

Love: It will kill you and save you, both By Lauren Oliver

DOES THIS STRAITJACKET MAKE MY BUTT LOOK BIG? By Lauren Oliver

Rage will make you careless By Lauren Oliver

A free world is also a world of fracture By Lauren Oliver

The gears of God don't turn unless all the pieces fit right. By Lauren Oliver

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. By Lauren Oliver

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another. By Lauren Oliver

The first one, we'll name Blue. By Lauren Oliver

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. By Lauren Oliver

I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it. By Lauren Oliver

His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams. By Lauren Oliver

And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed? By Lauren Oliver

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me. By Lauren Oliver

That's the thing about faith. It works. By Lauren Oliver

If we could just float along, like snow. By Lauren Oliver

That was crazy. You're crazy." Alex shakes his head. "The old Lena would have bolted." You By Lauren Oliver

And I look back. Alex By Lauren Oliver

People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe, the hope said. Maybe. By Lauren Oliver

Anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky. By Lauren Oliver

In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex By Lauren Oliver

Everyone is asleep. They've been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake. I'm tired of sleeping. By Lauren Oliver

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world. By Lauren Oliver

You can't cheat if there are no rules By Lauren Oliver

Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.I told on them.I was jealous. By Lauren Oliver

You have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too. By Lauren Oliver

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again. By Lauren Oliver

The wind whispers Alex's name and the ocean repeats it; the swaying trees make me think of dancing. By Lauren Oliver

In the quiet, and the dark, I got stronger. By Lauren Oliver

I had no jacket, but I didn't even care.I was free. By Lauren Oliver

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world. By Lauren Oliver

Only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember. By Lauren Oliver

I was thinking of Lena. Of course. I was always thinking of Lena. By Lauren Oliver

It sounded like the world was ending. But it wasn't. By Lauren Oliver

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. By Lauren Oliver

Alex laughs softly. "After poetry," he says, leaning down to kiss me, "we move on to fairy tales. By Lauren Oliver

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. By Lauren Oliver

The problem is that he isn't Alex. By Lauren Oliver

I run for I don't know how long. Hours, maybe, or days. Alex told me to run. So I run. By Lauren Oliver

Julian is ahead of me. Alex is behind me. By Lauren Oliver

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music. By Lauren Oliver

Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it. By Lauren Oliver

This is one symptom of the deliria no one ever tells you about: Apparently the disease turns you into a world-class liar. By Lauren Oliver

Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly. By Lauren Oliver

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts. By Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special. By Lauren Oliver

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. By Lauren Oliver

He doesn't love me. He never loved me. All along, he's loved her. By Lauren Oliver

He was still in love with you, anyway. By Lauren Oliver

Life isn't life if you just float through it. By Lauren Oliver

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. By Lauren Oliver

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness. By Lauren Oliver

It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist. By Lauren Oliver

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful. By Lauren Oliver

There are many words in the English language that you never want to hear you father say. Enema. Orgasm. Disappointed. By Lauren Oliver

Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs By Lauren Oliver

I'm not sure whether he's looking for a frozen dinner or just taking advantage of the free cold air. By Lauren Oliver

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. By Lauren Oliver

What was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain? By Lauren Oliver

Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back against my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. Julian fumbles with the By Lauren Oliver

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point. By Lauren Oliver

So I guess this is the next big thing. And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can. By Lauren Oliver

I wander through the halls and the campus, thinking how strange it is that you can live your whole life in one place and never really look at it. By Lauren Oliver

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit By Lauren Oliver

He gives my hand a quick squeeze, surprising me- there are somethings, I guess, that come naturally, even if you've never done them before. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe dying a few times messes with your hormones or something. I kind of like it. His By Lauren Oliver

People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine. By Lauren Oliver

Is the most deadly of all evils, you can die of love or lack of it. By Lauren Oliver

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. By Lauren Oliver

He said it with this really serious look on his face, like he was in the process of farting out some really important wisdom. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see. By Lauren Oliver

Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny, By Lauren Oliver

It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable By Lauren Oliver

Everyone knows that only wishes that are kept secret will ever come true. By Lauren Oliver

No guest rooms." I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. By Lauren Oliver

The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils. By Lauren Oliver

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit. By Lauren Oliver

There were always the birds By Lauren Oliver

Into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear By Lauren Oliver

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy. By Lauren Oliver

with a face like a fish pressed to glass; eyes so large they appear distorted. "Is By Lauren Oliver

And there it is: Even though we're standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart. By Lauren Oliver

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep.If I should die before I wake,I pay thee, Lord, my soul to take. By Lauren Oliver

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end. By Lauren Oliver

I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again By Lauren Oliver

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress. By Lauren Oliver

Some things are better left buried and forgotten. By Lauren Oliver

I suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up. THROUGH By Lauren Oliver

I don't care about that," he says, lower. Another pause, and then: "I just don't want you to hate me. By Lauren Oliver

If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago. By Lauren Oliver

How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know. By Lauren Oliver

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths. By Lauren Oliver

Nothing in the world is ever really nothing, and everything is possible in some way ... By Lauren Oliver

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? By Lauren Oliver

I guess that's the really nice thing about disappearing: the part where people look for you and beg you to come home. By Lauren Oliver

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie. By Lauren Oliver

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. By Lauren Oliver

And we'll punish the people who don't conform. Not bodily of course. This is a civilized country. By Lauren Oliver

dozens of them, all heads and arms and screaming mouths - pour By Lauren Oliver

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I shouldnever have asked him to cross. By Lauren Oliver

It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would) By Lauren Oliver

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. By Lauren Oliver

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling. By Lauren Oliver

but then I realize he's drenched, soaked in blood: blood By Lauren Oliver

There is a vast world for us, a boundless space beyond and between the fences and the rules. We will travel it freely. We will be okay. By Lauren Oliver

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. By Lauren Oliver

That is all there is for me to do: listen, watch, stay quiet. By Lauren Oliver

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it. By Lauren Oliver

We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel. By Lauren Oliver

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion. By Lauren Oliver

It all boils down to the same thing: are you going to play the cards you got, or are you going to fold? By Lauren Oliver

no glove, no love By Lauren Oliver

My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate. By Lauren Oliver

It's so good I could cry, and Sarah actually does cry, sitting and sobbing in front of her plate. By Lauren Oliver

Nobody ever said life was fair. By Lauren Oliver

The cancer was back, this time pressing at the base of my brain stem." His hands tighten on the sides of the podium By Lauren Oliver

I guess they'll find out that freedom doesn't keep you warm, By Lauren Oliver

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats. By Lauren Oliver

Live free or die. I By Lauren Oliver

Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect. By Lauren Oliver

I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I'm By Lauren Oliver

Funny how in really serious moments people always say the stupidest things. By Lauren Oliver

I'm sorry," he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. "I'm sorry for everything. By Lauren Oliver

So many things becomes beautiful when you really look. By Lauren Oliver

I got the thrill of being alive, being on a stupid speck of a planet in the middle of an infinity of nothing, but still alive. By Lauren Oliver

It was strange how once you saw a rat wearing clothes, it became slightly disgusting to imagine the animal naked. By Lauren Oliver

Welcome to the resistance, Lena,' he whispers to me. 'I'll try to make this quick. By Lauren Oliver

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt. By Lauren Oliver

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy. By Lauren Oliver

He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction. By Lauren Oliver

You didn't miss anything in math, he says, and I recognize a Kent McFuller babble coming on. By Lauren Oliver

We're all hangmen. By Lauren Oliver

That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet. By Lauren Oliver

I hope she's alive. Even more, I believe. By Lauren Oliver

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure. By Lauren Oliver

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. By Lauren Oliver

My mind is on autopilot and my thoughts are a million miles away By Lauren Oliver

They told us that love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. By Lauren Oliver

You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends. By Lauren Oliver

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. By Lauren Oliver

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. By Lauren Oliver

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever. By Lauren Oliver

The last thing I need is to morph into one of those people who's always wearing black and doodling guns and bombs on her notebook. By Lauren Oliver

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. By Lauren Oliver

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now. By Lauren Oliver

Her voice has always reminded me of bees droning flatly in the heat. By Lauren Oliver

she'd had to get good at being crippled. By Lauren Oliver

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself. By Lauren Oliver

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450 By Lauren Oliver

You can't go home again - isn't necessarily that places change but people do. By Lauren Oliver

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same. By Lauren Oliver

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire. By Lauren Oliver

I'd rather die my way than live yours. By Lauren Oliver

I can feel them, can hear the rush of hundreds of feet, can hear old laughter running underneath the birdsong: a place built of memory and echo. By Lauren Oliver

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you. By Lauren Oliver

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp. By Lauren Oliver

They must learn that freedom will not keep them warm. By Lauren Oliver

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else. By Lauren Oliver

She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug. By Lauren Oliver

If people changed, it meant that she was allowed to change too. She could be different.She could be happier. By Lauren Oliver

revealing a splotchy red forehead, shiny with sweat. By Lauren Oliver

Out of control- thats what it was, that's what I hated. By Lauren Oliver

With the same people who had never dreamed their way out of here. By Lauren Oliver

There's always some relief in giving up. By Lauren Oliver

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now. By Lauren Oliver

When a heart breaks, a firefly is born. By Lauren Oliver

The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. By Lauren Oliver

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it? By Lauren Oliver

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. By Lauren Oliver

How convenient if you could see what was wrong with people right away, if they wore their sicknesses and crimes on their skin like tattoos. By Lauren Oliver

I really like you, Sam," he says quietly."I always have." "I like you too. By Lauren Oliver

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us. By Lauren Oliver

That's the problem with therapists: you have to pay them to say the same dumb shit other people will tell you for free. By Lauren Oliver

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it. By Lauren Oliver

If you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home. By Lauren Oliver

Just for that moment, I feel as though I belong here. By Lauren Oliver

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in. By Lauren Oliver

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dustand also to make you feel so whole? By Lauren Oliver

Everything comes up in the end. By Lauren Oliver

We'll go." Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. "We'll fight. By Lauren Oliver

The smell of oranges has always reminded me of funerals. By Lauren Oliver

It's as though the shadows were an ocean, and the tide has gone out leaving a barren, rigid landscape of empty streets. By Lauren Oliver

If only bodies were like rooms, and people could pass in and out of them at will. By Lauren Oliver

The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom. By Lauren Oliver

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back. By Lauren Oliver

They're pretty subtle. Only a few dozen of them. I can see how you might not have noticed. By Lauren Oliver

Whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you. By Lauren Oliver

Hope keeps you alive. By Lauren Oliver

I'm dead, but I can't stop living. By Lauren Oliver

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control. By Lauren Oliver

Letting go is easy: it's all downhill. By Lauren Oliver

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes. By Lauren Oliver

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. By Lauren Oliver

School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you're the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well. By Lauren Oliver

Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together. By Lauren Oliver

He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.It's time to jump. By Lauren Oliver

Music doesn't have a body, but that's real... By Lauren Oliver

I read once that if a bunch of butterflies takes off from Thailand, it can cause a rainstorm in New York. By Lauren Oliver

the desire to see him, to kiss him again, to let him put his fingers in my hair - is a monstrous, constant, crawling feeling in my blood and bones. It By Lauren Oliver

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds. By Lauren Oliver

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail. By Lauren Oliver

You want everything to be shitty ... So you have an excuse to fail. By Lauren Oliver

I'd rather die my way than live yours. The By Lauren Oliver

Everyone has the pushed and prodded and tugged look that rich people have, like they're just giant pieces of taffy, ready to be molded. By Lauren Oliver

They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here.And there are more of us everyday. By Lauren Oliver

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge. By Lauren Oliver

That's what magic is, Nick," she says, her voice soft. "It's just faith ... By Lauren Oliver

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life. By Lauren Oliver

I'm not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure. By Lauren Oliver

She was always different from other people - more outspoken, more independent, more fearless. By Lauren Oliver

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom. By Lauren Oliver

She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently and that for everyone - even ghosts - there is a different kind of air. Chapter 15 By Lauren Oliver

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. By Lauren Oliver

Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. Hatred, By Lauren Oliver

She's like a person looking through the wrong end of a telescope, complaining that everything looks small. By Lauren Oliver

oatmeal. She was close to Miyako. The By Lauren Oliver

We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. By Lauren Oliver

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking. By Lauren Oliver

Every choice is limited. That's life. By Lauren Oliver

But it was true she had never hurt anyone to get what she wanted. Was that what made her less than human? By Lauren Oliver

Love. I love you. I'll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life. By Lauren Oliver

AND God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought ... By Lauren Oliver

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes. By Lauren Oliver

I'm sorry for everything. Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he's gone. By Lauren Oliver

I've always hated being looked at. By Lauren Oliver

We will have to trust too-that the world won't end, that tomorrow will come, and that truth will come too. By Lauren Oliver

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends. By Lauren Oliver

That's what everyone wanted, in the end: to be part of something bigger. By Lauren Oliver

This is my mission, the job that I have been given by Raven: Watch the DFA. Observe. Blend. They By Lauren Oliver

They didn't get me, I should have said. They saved me. By Lauren Oliver

Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars. By Lauren Oliver

That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak. By Lauren Oliver

But the old Lena is dead too.I buried her.I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame. By Lauren Oliver

I'll be right behind you," he says. By Lauren Oliver

Certain stories must remain mine, so that there is a me to remain. By Lauren Oliver

I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. By Lauren Oliver

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles. By Lauren Oliver

Memory is like that, too. We build careful bridges. But they're weaker than we think. By Lauren Oliver

My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn. By Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. By Lauren Oliver

This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass. By Lauren Oliver

He looked at me like I was beautiful. By Lauren Oliver

We make reality our own, handle it until it is soft as pressed butter. By Lauren Oliver

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot. By Lauren Oliver

pink is too juvenile; By Lauren Oliver

A path and a place for everyone, and for the people who disagree, a hole. By Lauren Oliver

You're too skinny."I could almost laugh. "Yeah, well. The restaurants in the Wilds are mostly closed. They're mostly bombed, actually. By Lauren Oliver

Another day bleeds out on the horizon, red and pink and gold; staring up at the sky. By Lauren Oliver

Live free or die. By Lauren Oliver

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place. By Lauren Oliver

The Wilds aren't safe anymore, By Lauren Oliver

Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death. By Lauren Oliver

People are new everyday. By Lauren Oliver

You can't be really happy unless you're unhappy sometimes. You know that, right? By Lauren Oliver

the distant cries of the seagulls By Lauren Oliver

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed. By Lauren Oliver

Black is too morbid; By Lauren Oliver

If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. By Lauren Oliver

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. By Lauren Oliver

You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right? By Lauren Oliver

An eye for an eye.And the whole world goes blind. By Lauren Oliver

Summers that slapped you in the face like a dog's tongue. By Lauren Oliver

...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments. By Lauren Oliver

You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots. By Lauren Oliver

Don't believe her. By Lauren Oliver

snakelike hiss, undulating, By Lauren Oliver

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return. By Lauren Oliver

There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass. By Lauren Oliver

That's what you do for family.Anything. By Lauren Oliver

A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean. By Lauren Oliver

Guilt requires absolution By Lauren Oliver

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all. By Lauren Oliver

I haven't been falling all this time. I've been flying By Lauren Oliver

Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure. By Lauren Oliver

I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same. By Lauren Oliver

I guess there are some things you never get used to. By Lauren Oliver

He winks at me. At By Lauren Oliver

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge. By Lauren Oliver

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. By Lauren Oliver

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do. By Lauren Oliver

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe when you die time folds in on you, and you bounce around inside this little bubble forever. Like By Lauren Oliver

Time is really just a test of patience. By Lauren Oliver

Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison. By Lauren Oliver

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes. By Lauren Oliver

There are more of us than you think. By Lauren Oliver

Of course, the wedding preparations are very stressful," my mother says.My father grunts. "You're not the one writing the checks. By Lauren Oliver

There are some losses we never get over. By Lauren Oliver

Amazing, how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it. By Lauren Oliver

That's the whole point, after all: There's no going back. By Lauren Oliver

I'm sure I look like a disaster, By Lauren Oliver

They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and air. By Lauren Oliver

There is no love, only disorder By Lauren Oliver

not as pretty as in the pictures. By Lauren Oliver

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. By Lauren Oliver

I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But By Lauren Oliver

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie By Lauren Oliver

This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience. By Lauren Oliver

Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring. By Lauren Oliver

The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side. By Lauren Oliver

You must hurt, or be hurt. By Lauren Oliver

Cassie asked too many questions. By Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind. By Lauren Oliver

My wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. By Lauren Oliver

Thing that don't matter when you've lived the same day By Lauren Oliver

Everythings end, people change and you don't look back. It's how gotta be. By Lauren Oliver

Izzy blows air out between her lips. "I wish nobody ever died," she says. By Lauren Oliver

Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners. By Lauren Oliver

Love obeys no laws By Lauren Oliver

Magnetism, my chem teacher would call it. The seeking for a thing of its pair. By Lauren Oliver

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it andwhen you don't. By Lauren Oliver

That's modernity, if you ask me: endless division. By Lauren Oliver

Somehow, the pain only makes it better, more intense, more worth it. By Lauren Oliver

He has given me a time and a place. He's telling me to meet him. By Lauren Oliver

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. By Lauren Oliver

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ... By Lauren Oliver

Nothing exists but him. By Lauren Oliver

There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved. By Lauren Oliver

Or maybe it's life that is the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleansing, a cure. By Lauren Oliver

Animals, I think. We're animals. By Lauren Oliver

Everything else is nothing. By Lauren Oliver

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses. By Lauren Oliver

I'm sure I look like a disaster, red-faced and wild-eyed and close to hysterical - I By Lauren Oliver

The old Lena is dead, By Lauren Oliver

If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves. By Lauren Oliver

Your mother loved you. Do you understand? She loved you. She still loves you. She wanted you to be safe. By Lauren Oliver

Frank keeps massaging his gun, and something about the motion - gentle, almost, like he's willing it to life - makes me feel sick. By Lauren Oliver

Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room. By Lauren Oliver

What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures. By Lauren Oliver

Every choice is limited,' I snap. 'That's life. By Lauren Oliver

Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But By Lauren Oliver

But no. I'm the one screaming. I am screaming as I run. I am screaming when the first bomb falls, and the Wilds turn to fire around By Lauren Oliver

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took By Lauren Oliver

I was the one who was really buried that day By Lauren Oliver

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind. By Lauren Oliver

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow. By Lauren Oliver

The lights burn bright for those who obey; the others will live in shadow all the days of their lives (The Book of Shhh, Psalm 17). By Lauren Oliver

I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky. By Lauren Oliver

She deserved an angel, and I wanted to be hers. By Lauren Oliver

Maybe next time, but probably not. By Lauren Oliver

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other. By Lauren Oliver

I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying. By Lauren Oliver

flat leaves like hands reaching for us. The By Lauren Oliver

Because," she says, "I said so." I By Lauren Oliver

existence depends on order. By Lauren Oliver

Is it even remotely, conceivably possible By Lauren Oliver

He liked to put his cigarettes out on my tongue. By Lauren Oliver

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste. By Lauren Oliver

Yeah, Roach is the resident By Lauren Oliver

Ants are driven by fear. By Lauren Oliver

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything? By Lauren Oliver

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own. By Lauren Oliver

So many things become beautiful when you really look. By Lauren Oliver

But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward. By Lauren Oliver

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. By Lauren Oliver