It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid. Lauren Oliver wish want kids And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me. Lauren Oliver stars dark sky I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. Lauren Oliver sacrifice love people i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world. Lauren Oliver miracle world thinking I'd rather die my way than live yours. Lauren Oliver women independent strong A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. Lauren Oliver best-kept-secrets keeping-secrets good-friend It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed. Lauren Oliver want-something waiting forever It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care. Lauren Oliver razors care thinking Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know. Lauren Oliver inspiration waiting life I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go. Lauren Oliver jumping air letting-go 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. Lauren Oliver valleys wish dream Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music. Lauren Oliver fluttering romantic thinking Music, I think, he makes me feel like music Lauren Oliver fluttering he-makes-me-feel thinking But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow? Lauren Oliver sunset flower summer I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in. Lauren Oliver borders used thinking 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. Lauren Oliver running sports thinking There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next. Lauren Oliver next I love you. Remember. They cannot take it Lauren Oliver delirium remember love I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa Lauren Oliver philosophy people thinking The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t. Lauren Oliver delirium
