1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Memory is like that, too. We build careful bridges. But they’re weaker than we think.

I hope she’s alive. Even more, I believe.

It’s the way he says my name: like music.

It is a strange phrase, ‘falling in love,’” said one of the princesses in the tower. Tears stood out on her cheeks, and even these were pretty, reflecting the blue sky above her. “It sounds like something you do accidentally, by yourself. But isn’t someone else always to blame? They should call it strangling in love. Walloped in love. Knocked-out-of-nowhere in love.

Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.

That’s the way I feel, at least: like there’s a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

You have to go forward: It’s the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It’s there, I know it’s there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.

He makes me feel like music.