1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Hal yang paling mematikan dari yang mematikan: Cinta akan tetap membunuhmu, tak peduli apakah kau memilikinya atau tidak.

Cinta akan membunuh, sekaligus menyelamatkanmu.

Penyakit yang paling berbahaya adalah penyakit yang membuat kita percaya kalau kita baik-baik saja.

Cinta memengaruhi akal sehatmu sampai kau tak bisa lagi berpikir dengan jernih atau membuat keputusan rasional dalam hidupmu.

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon.

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?