Raven Quotes

“There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Here are the top three things I’ve learned in my twenty-two years on the planet:

1. Never wipe your butt with poison ivy.

2. People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

3. There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

Of all of them, number three is really the only one you have to keep in mind”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“That’s what you do for family.
Anything.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“The first one, we’ll name Blue.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Only humans are unpredictable.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Sometimes I imagine that Tack and I will just crap out— flake on the whole war, the struggle, the resistance. Say good-bye and see you never. We'll go up north and build a homestead together, far away from everyone and everything. We know how to survive. We could do it. Trap and hunt and fish for our food, grow what we can, pop out a whole brood of kids and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. Let it blow itself to pieces if it wants to.
Dreams.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“It’s one of the reasons I love him.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“I learned to tell stories from my mom. "Your dad's not feeling well today," she'd say. I had an accident. She'd say, Remember what happened. You're a clumsy girl. You walk into a door. You tripped and stumbled down a staircase. My favorite story: He doesn't mean to.
She was so good at telling stories that I started to believe them after a while. Maybe I was clumsy. Maybe it was my fault for provoking him.
Maybe he didn't really mean to.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Ants are driven by fear.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“A name that brings a taste of sunshine, and of sunshine raising mist from the trees, and of mist reaching toward the sky.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“No hay finales felices. Solo grietas en la acción regular.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Las personas son como las hormigas: solo unos pocos dan órdenes. Y la mayoría, pasan sus vidas siendo aplastadas.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Recently I've been having the fantasy more and more" the one where Tack and I run away, disappear under the wide-open sky into the forest with leaves like green hands, welcoming us. In my fantasy, the more we walk, the cleaner we get, like the woods are rubbing away the past few years, all the blood and the fighting and the scars - sloughing off the bad memories and the false starts, leaving us shiny and new, like dolls just taken out of the package.

And in this fantasy, my fantasy life, we find a stone cottage hidden deep in the forest, untouched, fitted with beds and rugs and plates and everything we need to live - like the owners just picked up and walked away, or like the house had been built for us and was just waiting all this time.

We fish the stream and hunt the woods in the summer. We grow potatoes and peppers and tomatoes big as pumpkins. In the winter we stay inside by the fire while snow falls around us like a blanket, stilling the world, cocooning it in sleep.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“Today, I go east. It’s one of my favorite times of day: that perfect in-between moment when the light has a liquid feel, like a slow pour of syrup. Still, I can’t shake loose the knot of unhappiness in my chest. I can’t shake loose the idea that the rest of our lives might simply look like this: this running, and hiding, and losing the things we love, and burrowing underground, and scavenging for food and water.
There will be no turn in the tide. We will never march back into the cities, triumphant, crying out our victory in the streets. We will simply eke out a living here until there is no living to be eked.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven