Quotes from Lauren Oliver

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

That's what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison.

Over the past week, I've accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Let me show you

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

They'd already taken her from me once. I didn't want to lose her again.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower