Quote

I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

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
Comes
Rush
Away
Holiday
School
Stealing
Without
Knowing
Something
Anyone
Like
Getting
Wrong
Tipsy
Family
Cafeteria

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
Lauren Oliver
Image
There are more of us than you think.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium
Lauren Oliver
Image
Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The Wilds aren't safe anymore.
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
Life isn't life if you just float through it.
Lauren Oliver
Image
If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.
Lauren Oliver
Image
There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.
Lauren Oliver
Image
For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Lauren Oliver
Image
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.
Lauren Oliver
Image
There are some losses we never get over.
Lauren Oliver