Lauren Oliver Quotes

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I have X'd myself from your world.

I've been out on the periphery.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.