“ I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come. Lauren Oliver
“ As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules,… Lauren Oliver
“ This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive. 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. Lauren Oliver
“ People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself. Lauren Oliver
“ We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest… Lauren Oliver
“ I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say. Lauren Oliver
“ He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the l… 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. Lauren Oliver
“ That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are t… Lauren Oliver
“ 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 and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into i… Lauren Oliver
“ Recently I've been having the fantasy more and more" the one where Tack and I run away, disappear under the wide-open sky into the forest with leaves like green hands, welcoming us. In my fantasy, the… Lauren Oliver
“ He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction. 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. Lauren Oliver
“ No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. Lauren Oliver
“ The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down... 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. Lauren Oliver
“ My point is: 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,… Lauren Oliver
“ The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.”“But I’ve never kissed you,” he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glas… Lauren Oliver
