Quote

Old words words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

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
Nearly
Brought
Dies
Free
Words
Live
Knees

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
Lauren Oliver
Image
In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex
Lauren Oliver
Image
Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
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
It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)
Lauren Oliver
Image
Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
Lauren Oliver
Image
This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
Lauren Oliver
Image
The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.
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
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
only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Music, I think, he makes me feel like music
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