Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.
Lauren OliverPeople are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.
Lauren OliverEveryone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.
Lauren OliverI know that the whole pointโthe only pointโis to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
Lauren Oliver