1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.

Nobody ever said life was fair.

I know some of you are Thinking maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing Fringers, let me ask you Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse Then what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse Than what you do?

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

It's the way he says my name: like music.

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.