1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

This is it: somehow, in these pictures, the mystery of the accident is contained, and the explanation for Dara’s subsequent behavior, for the silences and disappearances. Don’t ask me how. I just do. If you don’t understand that, I guess you’ve never had a sister.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You’re only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

Love obeys no laws other than its own. That’s what always made it frightening.

He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly. It’s time to jump.

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie.

Why couldn’t you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.

A strange and baffling truth: that the people we’re supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.

I didn’t realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.