1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me.” “I blew you away?” I squeak out before I can stop myself. He stares at me steadily. “You blew everything away.

Let me show you

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.