Lauren Oliver Quotes

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.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Hope keeps you alive.

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.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

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.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

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.

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.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

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.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.