Quote

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

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
Brought
Feeling
Freedom
Kidnapping
Feelings
Pulled
Life
Rescue
Kiss
Kissing

More quotes by Lauren Oliver

Image
Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
Lauren Oliver
Image
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
Lauren Oliver
Image
That's the thing about faith. It works.
Lauren Oliver
Image
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
Image
It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
Lauren Oliver
Image
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
Image
I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
Lauren Oliver
Image
People need other people to feel things for them, she said. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner the blade the last-minute reprieve the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?
Lauren Oliver
Image
Life isn't life if you just float through it.
Lauren Oliver
Image
That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I want to know. His words are a whisper, barely audible. I want to know with you.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
Lauren Oliver
Image
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i dont just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop
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
It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.
Lauren Oliver
Image
I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
Lauren Oliver