That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable--and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

- from Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven by Lauren Oliver

This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must invent themselves, too.

- from Requiem by Lauren Oliver

"...but you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them."

- from The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey