Lauren Oliver Leaving Quotations

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.