Lauren Oliver

"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"

"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."

"Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.I found me a werewolf, a nasty old muttIt showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out in t…"

"I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go."

"And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear a…"

"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."

"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."

"If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love."