Lauren Oliver Want Quotations

Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

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.

That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

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

No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

Waste today, want tomorrow...

They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry...

Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.