Quotes by Lauren Oliver

“Two weeks until your cure she says finally. Sixteen days I say, but in my head Im counting: Seven days. Seven days until Im free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them theres hardly a change between the two.”

“What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.”

“You cant be happy unless youre unhappy sometimes.”

“Poetry isnt like any writing Ive ever heard before. I dont understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.”

“Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.”

“Live free or die.”

“And its 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 havent been falling at all. Ive been floating.”

“This is what I want. This is the only thing Ive ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.”

“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: Its 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.”

“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”