“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
— Lauren Oliver“Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
— Lauren Oliver“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
— Lauren Oliver“I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”
— Lauren Oliver“Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.”
— Lauren Oliver“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”
— Lauren Oliver“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”
— Lauren Oliver“I told you, he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. I like you.You don't know me, I say quickly.I want to, though.”
— Lauren Oliver“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
— Lauren Oliver“He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”
— Lauren Oliver“If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.”
— Lauren Oliver "Delirium."