“ I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. Lauren Oliver
“ ....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healt… Lauren Oliver
“ Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the… Lauren Oliver
“ Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, d… Lauren Oliver
“ (I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and ba… Lauren Oliver
“ I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range. Lauren Oliver
“ Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide… Lauren Oliver
“ A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. Lauren Oliver
“ That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terri… Lauren Oliver
“ For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen-- Lauren Oliver
“ Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is… Lauren Oliver
“ Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I’m only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one l… Lauren Oliver
“ I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles. 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. Lauren Oliver
“ Everyone you trust, everyone you think can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear… Lauren Oliver
“ Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed? Lauren Oliver
“ Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"...That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over w… Lauren Oliver
“ It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment… Lauren Oliver
