“Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it or give it away.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Fighting, Holding On
“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Power, Love, Boyfriend, Dating
“I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Knowledge, Intimacy
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Closeness, Intimacy, Healing
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: beauty, pay attention, Beautiful
“Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Hope, alive, Death
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Moving Forward, surviving, Survival
“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: chances, risks, falling, Flying
“Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, deadly, Killer
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Unhappy, Sadness, comparison
“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Hearts, fragile, Careful, Heartbroken
“That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Life, Suffering, Pain
“You want everything to be shitty... So you have an excuse to fail.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: excuses, Failure, shitty
“Life’s the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Life, misakes, Regrets
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Grief, sinking, Suffering
“Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Change, Changing, quickly
“Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Time, Patience
“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: unfair, Fail, warnings, Lies
“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Afraid, Fear, tomorrow, Death
“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: killers, Life, Past, excuses
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Anger, Rage, careless, Feelings
“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: People, Evil, mean
“It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: People, Knowledge, Secrets
“I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of…”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Lies, Secrets
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Alone, Pity
“This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Hatred, Destruction, Healing