Lauren Oliver Alex Quotations

amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.

Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

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