1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

But that’s the problem with love – it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn’t it?

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you’re completely free, you’re also completely on your own.

I close my eyes. An image flashes – emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past – you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future – I can’t wait to see who you’ll be. And in both cases: Thank you.

You may never know Hell, but you will not find Heaven, either.

For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I’ve always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point – last summer? last year? – she became beautiful.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it’s gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.