Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.
Lauren Oliver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Else
Delirium
Ever
Kiss
Wanted
Kissing
Everything
Meant
Come
Second
Nothing
Single
Thing
Moment
Every
Moments
More quotes by Lauren Oliver
Nobody ever said life was fair.
Lauren Oliver
It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.
Lauren Oliver
But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.
Lauren Oliver
Old words words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
Lauren Oliver
Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.
Lauren Oliver
Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.
Lauren Oliver
Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.
Lauren Oliver
Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
Lauren Oliver
Something must die so that others can live.
Lauren Oliver
His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
Lauren Oliver
And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
Lauren Oliver
Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
Lauren Oliver
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
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.
Lauren Oliver
It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.
Lauren Oliver
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
Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
Lauren Oliver
You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.
Lauren Oliver
I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
Lauren Oliver
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Lauren Oliver
