Cool & famous Quotes by : Lauren Oliver

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

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• Love

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.

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• Love

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

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• Love

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

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• Happiness

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

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• Inspirational

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

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• Humor

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

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• Hope

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

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• Love

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

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• Love

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 and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

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• Love

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

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• Romance

And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

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• Inspirational

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

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• Love

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

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• Romance

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

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• Love

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

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• Love

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

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• Love