Lauren Oliver

“My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll a...”

“Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.”

“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and so...”

“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing d...”

“'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.”

“With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.”

“I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.”

“Dystopian 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.”

“I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.”

“There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful...”

“I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.”

“You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.”

“I think 'Voldemort' is definitely the scariest villain.”

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