"I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Lauren Oliver quotes (page 11 of 27)
525 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"There are some losses we never get over."
Read quote
3 likes
"Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless."
Read quote
3 likes
"The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured."
Read quote
3 likes
"We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer."
Read quote
3 likes
"And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.” I’m gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I’m reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar."
Read quote
3 likes
"Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie"
Read quote
3 likes
"I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena."
Read quote
3 likes
"Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥"
Read quote
3 likes
"Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?"
Read quote
3 likes
"And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness."
Read quote
3 likes
"that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive."
Read quote
3 likes
"The Wilds aren't safe anymore."
Read quote
3 likes
"I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now."
Read quote
3 likes
"Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own."
Read quote
3 likes
"They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away."
Read quote
3 likes
"There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going."
Read quote
3 likes