Lauren Oliver Way Quotations

Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

It's the way he says my name: like music.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.