Lauren Oliver I Quotations

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

Hope keeps you alive.

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

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.

If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.