1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.Coral shifts, and moves her hand to Alex's arm."I'm with Julian," I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

Take down the walls.Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.

Nefericirea înseamnă robie; prin urmare, fericirea înseamnă libertate.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope,and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

Es asombroso cómo una frase puede destrozarte las entrañas, así, sin más. Dicen que una palabra hiere más profundamente que una espada; nunca me había dado cuenta de lo cierto que es.

Mīlestība ir nāvējošākā no visām nāvīgajām slimībām - tā nogalina gan tad, ja tev tā ir, gan tad, ja tev tās nav.

There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.