“ 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. Lauren Oliver
“ Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and aft… Lauren Oliver
“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. Lauren Oliver
“ I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. Lauren Oliver
“ Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is t… 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. Lauren Oliver
“ And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear a… Lauren Oliver
“ You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us o… Lauren Oliver
“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go. Lauren Oliver
“ Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.I found me a werewolf, a nasty old muttIt showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out in t… 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. Lauren Oliver
