1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world can go to hell.

Julian me rodea con el brazo y luego lo hace Alex; después, Raven me acuna, pongo la cabeza en su regazo, y mas tarde, mi mamá me canta.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom.

I hope she's alive. Even more, I believe.

I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.

It [death] isn't an infection, she said. She might be right. Then again, we've nested in the walls like bacteria. We've taken over the house, its insulation and its plumbing —we've made it our own. Or maybe it's life that it's the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleansing, a cure.

That’s what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable—and all the time we’re being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.