Quote

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

Lauren Oliver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Leaving
Sorry
Behinds
Behind
Wonder
Whether

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
Lauren Oliver
Image
His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
Lauren Oliver
Image
They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.
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
Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
Lauren Oliver
Image
There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
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
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
Lauren Oliver
Image
My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.
Lauren Oliver
Image
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
Lauren Oliver
Image
And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
Lauren Oliver
Image
And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.
Lauren Oliver
Image
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
Lauren Oliver
Image
And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.
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