01c. 1982 ADChance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
03c. 1982 ADThe rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
04c. 1982 ADAn itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
05c. 1982 ADLena Ella Haloway Tiddle." I pronounce her full name, very slowly, partly because I need to reassure myself of her existence—Lena, my friend, the worried one, the one who always pleaded for safety first, who now makes secret appointments to meet with boys. "You have some explaining to do.""Hana, you remember Alex," Lena says weakly, as though that—the fact of my remembering him—explains anyLauren Oliver / quote ↗
07c. 1982 ADJuliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies...Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
08c. 1982 ADWhat did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
09c. 1982 ADDystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
10c. 1982 ADI was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
11c. 1982 ADFinishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.Lauren Oliver / quote ↗
