1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.

Maybe for you there's a tomorrow , maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows , or three thousand , or ten ,so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it let it slide like a coin through your fingers , so much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today . And the truth is you never really know.

It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid.

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow.

The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come.

Everything else is nothing.

I'm dead, but I can't stop living.

Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.