If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.
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Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of numerous young adult novels including Panic, the Delirium trilogy; Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, and Before I Fall, which became a major motion picture in 2017. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers. Oliver graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Additionally, she holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University and is the co-founder of a Paper Lantern Lit with Lexa Hillyer. 2Early life Growing up, Oliver was both an avid reader and writer, stating, “I come from a family of writers, and so have always (mistakenly) believed that spending hours in front of the computer every day, mulling over the difference between ‘chortling’ and ‘chuckling’ is normal. As a child, after finishing a book, I would continue to write a sequel for its characters, because I did not want to have to give them up.” As she continued in her writing, Oliver eventually made the switch to writing her own stories and characters, to some success. Writing was not Oliver's only passion, though. She also enjoyed taking ballet, drawing, painting, making collages, singing, acting, experimenting with cooking, and as she puts it, “(trying) to spend my time being as creative and useless as possible.” After finishing high school and moving on to the University of Chicago, Oliver reveals, “I continued to be as impractical as possible by majoring in philosophy and literature...inadvertently aided and abetted in my mission by my older sister, Lizzie, who pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science. This eventually led our parents to resign themselves to the fact that their children would never be lawyers, doctors, or even gainfully employe
Love, the deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.
The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.
The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when he’s supposed to nod and says what he’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams… Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly…
Love: It will kill you and save you, both.
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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.
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.
Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it or give it away.
Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.
People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.
You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.
Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.