Quote

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

Lauren Oliver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Point
Around
Whole
Like
People
Connecticut

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
Lauren Oliver
Image
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
Lauren Oliver
Image
You see, we didn't know.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend to have time to waste.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.
Lauren Oliver
Image
But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
Lauren Oliver
Image
In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex
Lauren Oliver
Image
The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark but you are supposed to go through them.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.
Lauren Oliver
Image
He looked at me like I was beautiful.
Lauren Oliver