Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what. Lauren Oliver More Quotes by Lauren Oliver More Quotes From Lauren Oliver There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass. Lauren Oliver kissing glasses people It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care. Lauren Oliver delirium kill-me care 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 next dark lying 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 way world thinking 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-sheathes dancing That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own. Lauren Oliver frightening law made 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 kissing trying hands 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 flames fire two 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-worlds giving people 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 choices done firsts 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 darkness mean fall 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 care chance taken 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 sadness who-i-am people 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 stuck growing growing-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 vivid green shining 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-is giving world 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 strange people thinking 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 parent feelings bye 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 blind way world This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass. Lauren Oliver glasses
