For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win. Lauren Oliver panicsimplewinning Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. Lauren Oliver finishingleavingbook You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. Lauren Oliver wallskyway No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell. Lauren Oliver hellloveworld Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything? Lauren Oliver let-me Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what Lauren Oliver togethermonstersheart Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy. Lauren Oliver sunshinecrazyeye Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you. Lauren Oliver forgive-mehatelove-you Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. Lauren Oliver deliriumsingle-wordbigger Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time. Lauren Oliver ravensfightingtwo For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you. Lauren Oliver waitingpeoplepast No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved. Lauren Oliver cryfacts It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time. Lauren Oliver warninglifepeople And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo. Lauren Oliver eyemoonbeautiful My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist. Lauren Oliver my-boyfriendalliescute But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins. Lauren Oliver trackwinninglife But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic. Lauren Oliver magicknowsbelieve Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe. Lauren Oliver believelyingpeople I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire. Lauren Oliver growing-strongerfirewater I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos. Lauren Oliver powerfulorganizationpeople
