“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Trust, Disappointment, Friendship
“That's when you really lose people, you know. When the pain passes.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Suffering, Goodbyes
“That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Protection
“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Aging, Happiness, Faking it, Panic
“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Possession, poison, dangerous
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Helping, humanity, screwed over
“You can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Being Loved, affection
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people--to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Confusion, Misunderstanding, cause and effect
“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Freedom, Independent, Alone
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Words, Language, Fear, Joy
“Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep, because of what I'm leaving behind.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Sleeping, Resting, leaving behind
“It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Words, Pain, Suffering
“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I…”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Change, possibilities, Friends, boyfriends
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Time, Forever, Memories
“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: young, Old, Growing Up, kids, adults
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendships, Good Friends, Best Friends
“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Patience, Waiting, Past, Memories
“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: goodbye, Moving On, Letting Go
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today…”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Time, tomorrow, enjoy the moment
“Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Love, Healing, Pain, Heartbroken