1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

That’s what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable – and all the time we’re being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear, some behind a different face or personality, some behind early morning fog, beyond a cliff. That’s why the cure is so important. That’s why we need it.

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

That’s the thing: We didn’t really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you’ll always be taking it from someone else.

But that’s the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track.

You can’t cheat if there are no rules.

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