1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said."Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped

It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.