Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
— Lauren Oliver
It's worse than a disease. It's a poison.
— Lauren Oliver
Sometimes it is necessary that individuals are sacrificed for the the health of the whole.
— Lauren Oliver
Alex's T-shirt is red, and
— Lauren Oliver
I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
— Lauren Oliver
I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop
— Lauren Oliver
I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.
— Lauren Oliver
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it
— Lauren Oliver
Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
— Lauren Oliver
She might be dying. The idea pleased her. — Lauren Oliver
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
The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. — Lauren Oliver
Maybe this is the secret to talking to boysmaybe you just have to be angry all the time. — Lauren Oliver
This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates. — Lauren Oliver
We're standing in the middle of a graveyard. Alex — Lauren Oliver
I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain. — Lauren Oliver
On the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future. — Lauren Oliver
The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well — Lauren Oliver
A small part of me was glad. There's always relief in giving up. — Lauren Oliver
Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense. — Lauren Oliver
Lena," he says at last. "I think your mother is alive. — Lauren Oliver
If secrets were stuffing, the woman would be done up like a Thanksgiving turkey. — Lauren Oliver
Love grew inside me like a delicious secret. — Lauren Oliver
I wonder if this is how people get close: They heal each other's wounds. — Lauren Oliver
It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside down. — Lauren Oliver
layers I've built over the past six months, past the fake Lena with her shell and her ID cards and — Lauren Oliver
It's the way he says my name: like music. — Lauren Oliver
I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest. — Lauren Oliver
Only humans are unpredictable. — Lauren Oliver
I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. Please. — Lauren Oliver
If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride. — Lauren Oliver
There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION. — Lauren Oliver
Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small. — Lauren Oliver
Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. — Lauren Oliver
The first one, we'll name Blue. — Lauren Oliver
We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another. — Lauren Oliver
She was mine before she was yours. — Lauren Oliver
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver
The gears of God don't turn unless all the pieces fit right. — Lauren Oliver
A free world is also a world of fracture — Lauren Oliver
Rage will make you careless — Lauren Oliver
DOES THIS STRAITJACKET MAKE MY BUTT LOOK BIG? — Lauren Oliver
Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. — Lauren Oliver
Love: It will kill you and save you, both — Lauren Oliver
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies. — Lauren Oliver
He makes me feel like music — Lauren Oliver
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live. — Lauren Oliver
He is beautiful. — Lauren Oliver
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. A beautiful word, when you really think about it. — Lauren Oliver
Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past. — Lauren Oliver
Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is differentit is being alive. — Lauren Oliver
Love obeys no laws other than its own. That's what always made it frightening. — Lauren Oliver
Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line. — Lauren Oliver
Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead. — Lauren Oliver
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. — Lauren Oliver
And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance brieflyover my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that. — Lauren Oliver
HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO HAVE A PLACE; WISE ARE THEY WHO FOLLOW THE PATH; BLESSED ARE THEY WHO OBEY THE WORD. — Lauren Oliver
She has the same pinched look as her mother did. She — Lauren Oliver
I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again. — Lauren Oliver
We are free to choose. — Lauren Oliver
That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy — Lauren Oliver
Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage. — Lauren Oliver
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[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him. — Lauren Oliver
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. — Lauren Oliver
I reached and ran a finger along her collarbones, my favorite place: like the silhouette of tiny wings. — Lauren Oliver
Roses are red, violets are blue, if I get you in bed, it would be really cool. — Lauren Oliver
He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly. — Lauren Oliver
I wonder if you fall forever and ever and never touch down, is it still falling? — Lauren Oliver
Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away. — Lauren Oliver
Then he does the absolutely, positively unthinkable.He winks at me. — Lauren Oliver
That's okay," she says at last, returning her gaze to the fire. "He was still in love with you, anyway. — Lauren Oliver
At night I sleep dreamlessly. In the mornings I wake to fog. — Lauren Oliver
He wasn't afraid. He just didn't care. And that was very, very different. — Lauren Oliver
That's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her.like burning alive. — Lauren Oliver
Life will go on. — Lauren Oliver
Parents teach us our very first lesson about love: that you sure as hell don't get to choose it. — Lauren Oliver
So: outside, and to the black rush of the Presumpscot River.To freedom.
For me, the world was beginning. — Lauren Oliver
I wish I could close my eyes and beblown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. — Lauren Oliver
Until, one day, she wasn't. — Lauren Oliver
I'm glad the choice is made for us. I'm glad I don't have to choose-but more than that, I'm glad I don't have to make someone else choose me. — Lauren Oliver
It's one of the reasons I love him. — Lauren Oliver
Just thinkin' about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ... . — Lauren Oliver
We are free to choose the wrong thing. — Lauren Oliver
the bright, clipped voice that all nurses seem to share, like it's part of their medical training. — Lauren Oliver
The mark of the procedure. A real one.Lu is cured. — Lauren Oliver
Your parents are supposed to keep you safe. — Lauren Oliver
Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark. — Lauren Oliver
He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though. — Lauren Oliver
We come from two different worlds, and we belonged to two different sides. But everything will be okay. — Lauren Oliver
I don't know exactly what to wish for: to be safe or unsafe, for things to change or for things to stay the same. — Lauren Oliver
Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.-Lauren Oliver, Delerium — Lauren Oliver
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 — Lauren Oliver
That's what made it sofrightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys
no laws other than its own. — Lauren Oliver
It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don't forget. So it becomes real. — Lauren Oliver
Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation. — Lauren Oliver
I thought I would live forever too. - Before I Fall — Lauren Oliver
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
