1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

It's weird how much people change. [...] It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.

si cruzas una línea y nada sucede, la línea pierde sentido, como cuando dicen que si el árbol del bosque cae y no hay nadie que lo escuche realmente hace ruido.Te mantienes dibujando la línea más y más lejos, así es como las personas terminan pisando fuera del borde de la tierra. Te sorprendería lo fácil que es romperse fuera de órbita, dar vueltas en un lugar donde nadie puede tocarte. Para perderte a ti mismo, para perderte. Y a esas personas solo puedo decir… lo siento

Amazing, how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons.You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

Las buenas amigas guardan los secretos; las amigas íntimas te ayudan a no contarlos.

Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?"Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.

whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.

The normalcy of it almost kills me. Even in a world turned upside down, a world of war and insanity, people hang their clothing; they fold their pants; they make their beds. It is the only way.