Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.
Lauren OliverBecause if it werenโt for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
Lauren OliverSomewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.
Lauren OliverThat was what her parents did not understandโand had never understoodโabout 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.
Lauren Oliver