1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Popularity’s a weird thing. You can’t really define it, and it’s not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

We’re killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

Beautiful,” and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.

She’d also learned that curiosity lead to disappointment: that it was better not to want, not to look, not to wonder.

They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn’t, and it never was. It’s about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear – a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

That’s what heartbreak feels like: a little death” -Brynn.

School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you’re the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well.

Julian sucks in a deep breath. Then, all in a rush, he says, “I love you.” Just as I blurt out, “Don’t say it.” There’s another beat of silence. Julian looks startled. “What?” he finally says. I wish I could take the words back. I wish I could say I love you, too. But the words are caught in the cage of my chest. “Julian, you have to know how much I care about you.” I try to touch him, and he jerks backward. “Don’t,” he says.

Lyra and Caelum: the two replicas with names plucked straight from the stars.