LAUREN OLIVER

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

"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."

"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."

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