1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.