1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power of which their parents know practically nothing.

From the way they were pillow talking I was worried I was about to be treated to the symphony of another make-out session.

My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear…

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past- you know who you are.For the people who will infect me in the future- I can't wait to see who you'll be.And in both cases:Thank you.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden.He carried with him the disease— amor deliria nervosa —in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into amagnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood.