1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

I love you. They can't take it away.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.