1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

You have to learn that people are always listening.

Happiness is found when no one is looking

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.