And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.