“Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .” ThinkingKnowsEyeFallMouthsRoundsWideHer EyesJerkRavens Author:Lauren Oliver
“Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.” KnowsFeelsI CanHealBulletsRibsTime Heals Author:Lauren Oliver
“For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--” KnowsFeelsFactsHappensCertainGriefOverwhelmingThings Change Author:Lauren Oliver
“I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop” KnowsWantHeartKnow HowFeetMy HeartDust Book:Requiem Source: Requiem
“Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHeartSometimesBigsWould BeTogetherSidesLosesSkyWindFlowerSummerPicksGreenBoundsSmellMonstersSnowSunsetWhat IfHoneyElectricLitFloatsExplosionsPatchesRiotShatteredZombieland Author:Lauren Oliver
“Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what” IfsKnowsHeartWould BeTogetherLosesMonstersPatchesShattered Author:Lauren Oliver
“For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.” PeopleKnowsI CanPastWaitingCasesWho You AreAmorDelirium Book:Delirium Source: Delirium
“And this, really, is the story-within-the-story, because if you do not believe that hearts can bloom suddenly bigger, and that love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places, then I am afraid that for you the world will be long and brown and barren, and you will have trouble finding the light. But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.” IfsKnowsWorldBelieveHeartLongStoriesLightTroubleMagicFlowerFindingsBiggerHardestBrownBarren Author:Lauren Oliver
“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.” PeopleKnowsBlindGuessing Author:Lauren Oliver
