“Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a k...” — Lauren Oliver Quote

“Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.”

“Hope keeps you alive.”

“Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

“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.”

“They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.”

“I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have.”

“In my first film, I kissed a girl and nobody said anything on that. Now in my third film, I kissed a guy and the media has made a hue and cry about it.”

“There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.”

“I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.”

“Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.”

“I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.”

“You can cry, ain't no shame in it.”