Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.
Lauren OliverNo guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.
Lauren Oliveri suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
Lauren OliverAs Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.
Lauren Oliver