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 will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it
Love: It will kill you and save you, both
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.
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.
When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.