My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.
Lauren OliverYou have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.
Lauren OliverThatโs just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. Itโs no big deal. Thereโs always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in Americaโprobably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
Lauren Oliver