The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life. 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 flower heart believe 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 forever lying years 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 rocks secret people 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 shoes miracle house He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. Lauren Oliver disbelief mines grief Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful. Lauren Oliver delirium fragile-things heart If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love. Lauren Oliver best-love smart care I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you. Lauren Oliver i-dont-love-you love-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 tunnels space dark We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. Lauren Oliver mantras stories needs 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 done wonderful mean How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? Lauren Oliver requiem dust feels Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. Lauren Oliver bondage unhappiness I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. Lauren Oliver skins broken people 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 dark long hands 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-beginnings different would-be The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own. Lauren Oliver pandemonium flip sides He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world. Lauren Oliver delirium world The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. Lauren Oliver weight stones past
