Quote

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

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
Rounds
Disk
Move
Pressing
Though
Grind
Hours
Flat
Moving
Flats
Seems
Gray
Slowly
Disks
Round
Layered

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I want to know. His words are a whisper, barely audible. I want to know with you.
Lauren Oliver
Image
My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.
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
They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.
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
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
Lauren Oliver
Image
In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .
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
Live free or die.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I love you. They can't take it away.
Lauren Oliver
Image
For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.
Lauren Oliver
Image
It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
Lauren Oliver
Image
What glitters may not be gold and even wolves may smile and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
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
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
Lauren Oliver
Image
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
Lauren Oliver