1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

So we’re different. Who cares? We chose to escape together. We chose to stay together. We chose each other, didn’t we?

So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Just listen, okay?” He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and tornadoes and boys with blue eyes.

I know that the whole point – the only point – is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

She’s like a person looking through the wrong end of a telescope, complaining that everything looks small.

You don’t reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Everything ends, people move on, they don’t look back. It’s how they should be.

But I am going to keep going. I am going to soar, and soar, and break away – up, up, up into the thundering noise and the wind, like a bird being sucked into the sky.

And then, just at that moment, when I’m no longer sure if I’m dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.