There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. Lauren Oliver hoveringwaitingpeople There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass. Lauren Oliver kissingglassespeople It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care. Lauren Oliver deliriumkill-mecare That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love. Lauren Oliver nextdarklying The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes. Lauren Oliver wayworldthinking But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both. Lauren Oliver alex-sheathesdancing That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own. Lauren Oliver frighteninglawmade We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart. Lauren Oliver kissingtryinghands Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. Lauren Oliver flamesfiretwo But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me. Lauren Oliver other-worldsgivingpeople For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. Lauren Oliver choicesdonefirsts It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling. Lauren Oliver darknessmeanfall 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 carechancetaken I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex. Lauren Oliver sadnesswho-i-ampeople He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess. Lauren Oliver stuckgrowinggrowing-up Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life. Lauren Oliver vividgreenshining Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. Lauren Oliver love-isgivingworld It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all. Lauren Oliver strangepeoplethinking The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all. Lauren Oliver parentfeelingsbye If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now. Lauren Oliver blindwayworld
