Lauren Oliver Quote #1
(I)f you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the road will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light.
But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.Lauren Oliver Quote #2
-Todo el mundo está dormido. Llevan años dormidos. Tu parecias... despierta - susurra. Cierra los ojos, los vuelve a abrir-. Estoy harto de dormir.
Lauren Oliver Quote #3
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.
Lauren Oliver Quote #4
...I've never really had a party before.
Why did you have one now? I say, just to keep him talking.
He gives a half laugh. I thought if I had a party, you would come.Lauren Oliver Quote #5
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Lauren Oliver Quote #6
“Would you like to?” he says. His voice is hardly audible above the wind—so low it’s barely a whisper.
“Would I like to what?” My heart is roaring, rushing in my ears, and though there are still several inches between his hand and mine, there’s a zipping, humming energy that connects us, and from the heat flooding my body you would think we were pressed together, palm to palm, face to face.
“Dance,” he says, at the same time closing those last few inches and finding my hand and pulling me closer, and at that second the song hits a high note and I confuse the two impressions, of his hand and the soaring, the lifting of the music.
We dance.
Lauren Oliver Quote #7
—And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me.”
“I blew you away?” I squeak out before I can stop myself.
He stares at me steadily. “You blew everything away.Lauren Oliver Quote #8
¿Quien sabe? Quizas ellos tengan razón. Quizas estamos siendo manejados como locos por nuestros sentimientos. Quizas el amor es una enfermedad y estaríamos mejor sin ella. Pero nosotros elegimos una ruta diferente. Y al final, ese es el punto de escapar de la cura: Somos libres para elegir. Somos incluso libres para elegir algo horrible.
Lauren Oliver Quote #9
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
Lauren Oliver Quote #10
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
Lauren Oliver Quote #11
Alex.
Lauren Oliver Quote #12
Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons.
Lauren Oliver Quote #13
An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
Lauren Oliver Quote #14
An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm.
I ran.Lauren Oliver Quote #15
And for a moment?for a split second?everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
Lauren Oliver Quote #16
And it's 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 haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
Lauren Oliver Quote #17
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 Quote #18
And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven--for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until they fight back.
Lauren Oliver Quote #19
And suddenly it's all so ridiculously and stupidly clear I feel like laughing. This is what I want. This is the only thing i've ever wanted. Everything else---every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss---has meant nothing.
Lauren Oliver Quote #20
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine, but it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night.
Lauren Oliver Quote #21
And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
Lauren Oliver Quote #22
And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
Lauren Oliver Quote #23
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.Lauren Oliver Quote #24
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.
Lauren Oliver Quote #25
And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
Lauren Oliver Quote #26
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
Lauren Oliver Quote #27
Aquí hay algo más que recordar: la esperanza te mantiene viva. Incluso cuando estás muerta, es lo único que te mantiene viva.
Lauren Oliver Quote #28
Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
I don't know any other way.
Let me show you.
And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.Lauren Oliver Quote #29
Are you sure that being like everyone else will make you happy?
Lauren Oliver Quote #30
Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?
I'm sure.
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