It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Lauren OliverThe deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you donโt.
Lauren OliverBut that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
Lauren OliverThis is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.
Lauren OliverPerhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.
Lauren OliverI know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients
Lauren Oliver