Broken Things Quotes

“Words mean different things to different people, at different times, in different places.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That’s the thing about hearts. They don’t get put back together, not really. They just get patched. But the damage is still there.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“The problem with fairy tales isn't that they don't exist. It's that they do exist, but only for some people.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That's the problem with lies. They aren't solid. They melt, and seep, and leak into the truth. And sooner or later, everything's just a muddle.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Sorry is one of the worst words of all: it hardly ever means what you want it to" -Mia”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“She didn’t realize how much depends on what you’re remembered for. Sometimes, it’s so much better to be forgotten.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“It's much better this way," he said. "Change is just another word for disappointment, you know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“In books, secret worlds are accessible by doors or keys or other physical objects. But Lovelorn was not such a world, and appeared at whim and only when it felt like it, with a subtle change like the slow shifting of afternoon to evening.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“It is a strange phrase, ‘falling in love,’” said one of the princesses in the tower. Tears stood out on her cheeks, and even these were pretty, reflecting the blue sky above her. “It sounds like something you do accidentally, by yourself. But isn’t someone else always to blame? They should call it strangling in love. Walloped in love. Knocked-out-of-nowhere in love.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“The biggest problem with lies? They breed." -Brynn”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Just listen, okay?" He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and tornadoes and boys with blue eyes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Words are like a virus - there's no telling what kind of damage they'll do once they're out" -Mia”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That's what heartbreak feels like: a little death" -Brynn”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Decaf. The single worst word in the English language.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Before we were the Monsters of Brickhouse Lane—before everyone from Connecticut to California knew us by that tagline, and blogs ran pictures of our faces, and searching our names led to sites that crashed from all the traffic—we were just girls, and there were only two of us.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“He's furious. And something else - another expression is working beneath the anger, a look of hurt so deep it makes me want to curl up and die. It's crazy how someone else's pain can do that, just take the legs out from under you" -Mia”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“When you can’t count on anything else, you can count on the news to make you sick.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“The little scuzzbucket should just marry his right hand and be done with it.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That's the thing about hearts. They don't get put back together, not really. They just get patched. But the damage is still there.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“That's the whole point of stories: they stand in for things too horrible to name.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“August is the saddest month: nothing so perfect can possibly last forever.”
― Lauren Oliver; Read by Simon Vance, Broken Things

“It’s much better this way,” he said. “Change is just another word for disappointment, you know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“We made it up, every last bit of it. We were bored, we were deviant, we were in love, we were out of out fucking minds”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“The problem with fairy tales isn’t that they don’t exist. It’s that they do exist, but only for some people.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“. I was just a shadow substitute, someone to keep her company while she waited for her real best friend to come back.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Words are snares to trip you and ropes to hang you on and whirling storms to confuse you and lead you the wrong way.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

“Maybe we were always broken. Maybe I was always a liar, and Mia was always weak. Maybe what happened to Summer didn’t turn us but only revealed what was already there.”
― Lauren Oliver, Broken Things