Lauren Oliver:
(born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982).
American author of numerous young adult novels including Panic; the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem; and Before I Fall, which became a major motion picture in 2017.
The windows are open, admitting the September breeze―a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves, and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.
August still stretched before us long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
I used to think that’s what love was: Knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
