1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

He looked at me like I was beautiful.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

That’s what you do for family. Anything.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

The first one, we’ll name Blue.

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.