1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.

In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well