1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for...

Rage will make you careless.

And I guess that’s when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.

Perfect. There’s the word again: a locked-door word – stifling, strangling.

Otra cosa que merece la pena recordar: la esperanza nos mantiene vivos. Incluso cuando estamos muertos, nos mantiene vivos.

It’s the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

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. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.

For the first time in my life I’ve done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn’t quite speak.