Quote

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

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
Thinking
Passion
People
Desire
Fear
Poke
Else
Sadness
Nothing
Hatred
Feel
Watches
Feels
Watch
Think
Control

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
Lauren Oliver
Image
Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.
Lauren Oliver
Image
When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Quiet through the grave go I or else beneath the graves I lie
Lauren Oliver
Image
Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
Lauren Oliver
Image
That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy
Lauren Oliver
Image
If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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
And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.
Lauren Oliver
Image
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
Image
So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Every choice is limited. That's life.
Lauren Oliver
Image
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?
Lauren Oliver
Image
I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
Lauren Oliver