Lauren Oliver

"So many things become beautiful when you really look"

- Lauren Oliver

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Lauren Oliver

"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: You’re so close to freedom."

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Lauren Oliver

"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt."

- Lauren Oliver

"Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep."

- Lauren Oliver

"For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried."

- Lauren Oliver

"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do, the only thing-is run."

- Lauren Oliver