1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.