Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliveris an American author of the New York Times bestselling YA novels Before I Fall, which was published in 2010; Panic; and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the fantasy middle-grade novel The Spindlers. Panic, which was published in March 2014, has been optioned by Universal Pictures in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth8 November 1982
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.
Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it
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
Love: It will kill you and save you, both
How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".