1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you.

Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.

Promise me we'll stay together, okay?" His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me.""I promise," I say.Behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

You're getting older," Mr. Dumfrey said, as if he'd read her mind. "The world is full of Rattigans, just as it is full of beautiful and wondrous things. You will have to see all of it, and you will have to see it on your own.

You grew up little and you learned about evil. Well, now you're going to grow up a little bit more. Evil isn't always obvious. It's not always the people who make headlines. Evil sometimes in the failure of people to do the right thing. The brave thing. Evil sometimes just looks like going along with the crowd. And you know what? In tha way, we're all a little bit evil.

You grew up little and you learned about evil. Well, now you're going to grow up a little bit more. Evil isn't always obvious. It's not always the people who make headlines. Evil sometimes in the failure of people to do the right thing. The brave thing. Evil sometimes just looks like going along with the crowd. And you know what? In that way, we're all a little bit evil.

Just for that moment, I feel as though I belong here.

Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy?