Lauren Oliver Quotes

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

There is a shadow on every page.

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

I am intrigued by the darkness.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.

I'm everywhere, baby, I'm everywhere. And I'm nowhere, I'm like a ghost.

I was obviously in NXT for a while and had some success, but then I found myself lurking in the shadows and not really doing much.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

Fatality makes us invisible.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.