Quotes from Lauren Oliver

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

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.

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

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.

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

That's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.

Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I'm looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

That's the thing about faith. It works.

That's what you do for family. Anything.

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you're so close to freedom.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

Funny how certain things stay with you.

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.