Lauren Oliver quotes
I'd rather die my way than live yours. 
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. 
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. 
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you... When you have it... And when you don't 
I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. 
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. 
This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed. 
I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. 
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa 
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. 
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. All Lauren Oliver quotes ⇑
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.
I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
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.
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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.
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?
It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."