“ And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really… Lauren Oliver
“ It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed. Lauren Oliver
“ I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you. Lauren Oliver
“ How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all? Lauren Oliver
“ I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go. Lauren Oliver
“ Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do. Lauren Oliver
“ Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to… Lauren Oliver
“ Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think… Lauren Oliver
“ If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up Lauren Oliver
“ I keep quiet and look out the window. The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun hast just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. The shadows are as sharp and poin… Lauren Oliver
“ I am falling, tumbling through the air, but this time the darkness is alive around me, full of beating things, and I realize that I'm not surrounded by dark but have only had my eyes closed all this t… Lauren Oliver
“ It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age… Lauren Oliver
“ And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating. Lauren Oliver
