And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the world will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic. Lauren Oliver flowerheartbelieve They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie Lauren Oliver foreverlyingyears I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe. Lauren Oliver rockssecretpeople It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes. Lauren Oliver shoesmiraclehouse He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. Lauren Oliver disbeliefminesgrief Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful. Lauren Oliver deliriumfragile-thingsheart If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love. Lauren Oliver best-lovesmartcare I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you. Lauren Oliver i-dont-love-youlove-you Love: It will kill you and save you, both Lauren Oliver delirium people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine. Lauren Oliver tunnelsspacedark We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. Lauren Oliver mantrasstoriesneeds Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you. Lauren Oliver donewonderfulmean How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? Lauren Oliver requiemdustfeels Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. Lauren Oliver bondageunhappiness I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. Lauren Oliver skinsbrokenpeople That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories. Lauren Oliver darklonghands This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered. Lauren Oliver new-beginningsdifferentwould-be The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own. Lauren Oliver pandemoniumflipsides He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world. Lauren Oliver deliriumworld The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. Lauren Oliver weightstonespast
