1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess – stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Maybe when you die time folds in on you, and you bounce around inside this little bubble forever. Like.

They would face it together, as they were then: turned human by joy, by a belonging that felt just like freedom.

Life isn’t life if you just float through it.

But it was true she had never hurt anyone to get what she wanted. Was that what made her less than human?

It’s like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don’t care.

Maybe it would be better if we didn’t love. If we didn’t lose, either. If we didn’t get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn’t have to patch and repatch it until we’re like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what.

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other – they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.