1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.