Lauren Oliver Quotes

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I would like immortality.

I believe it will last until eternity.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Eternity - waste of time.

Always is no Time at all.

It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.