All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.
Lauren OliverIt's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
Lauren OliverThe sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
Lauren OliverThat's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.
Lauren Oliver