1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy – but it’s never him, and each time it isn’t, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.

It’s going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we’re falling.

We are all Hangmen.

Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don’t know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might paradise, or destruction. Take down the walls.

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

There’s always some relief in giving up.

Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

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

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world – your little carved-out sphere – is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.