Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes. Lauren Oliver moments sometimes believe You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist Lauren Oliver arms trying way my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. Lauren Oliver erratic heart He looked at me like I was beautiful. Lauren Oliver beautiful At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better. Lauren Oliver faults different way Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close. Lauren Oliver pugs ugly far-away Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. Lauren Oliver color white sky Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? Lauren Oliver telling-the-truth liars lying ...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home. Lauren Oliver coffee missing home Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself. Lauren Oliver stupid mind trying If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. Lauren Oliver before-i-fall lines crosses I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for. Lauren Oliver giving-up self people That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him. Lauren Oliver skins tears promise Life isn't life if you just float through it. Lauren Oliver floats ifs Grief is like sinking, like being buried. Lauren Oliver sinking buried grief Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. Lauren Oliver thread good-things together You can't tell me what to feel Lauren Oliver pandemonium feels I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up. Lauren Oliver tired prayer fall The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom. Lauren Oliver worst mom knowing It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist. Lauren Oliver play beautiful people
