Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Live free or die.”

— Lauren Oliver

2. “Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.”

— Lauren Oliver

3. “So many things become beautiful when you really look.”

— Lauren Oliver

4. “He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly. It’s time to jump.”

— Lauren Oliver

5. “Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You’re only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”

— Lauren Oliver

6. “Maybe next time, but probably not.”

— Lauren Oliver

7. “I’d rather die my way than live yours.”

— Lauren Oliver

8. “When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”

— Lauren Oliver

9. “Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don’t hate me. I still love you.”

— Lauren Oliver

10. “This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”

— Lauren Oliver

11. “Everything ends, people move on, they don’t look back. It’s how they should be.”

— Lauren Oliver

12. “Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.”

— Lauren Oliver

13. “That’s when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they’re over they still go on, even after you’re dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.”

— Lauren Oliver

14. “The reason you can never go home again isn’t necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.”

— Lauren Oliver

15. “It’s going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we’re falling.”

— Lauren Oliver

16. “There are more of us than you think.”

— Lauren Oliver

17. “There’s always some relief in giving up.”

— Lauren Oliver

18. “You have to go forward: It’s the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”

— Lauren Oliver

19. “Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.”

— Lauren Oliver

20. “People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.”

— Lauren Oliver

21. “I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.”

— Lauren Oliver

22. “Feelings aren’t forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.”

— Lauren Oliver

23. “I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.”

— Lauren Oliver

24. “Words mean different things to different people, at different times, in different places.”

— Lauren Oliver

25. “And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.”

— Lauren Oliver

26. “The flip side of freedom is this: When you’re completely free, you’re also completely on your own.”

— Lauren Oliver

27. “It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.”

— Lauren Oliver

28. “A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”

— Lauren Oliver

29. “The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don’t know.”

— Lauren Oliver

30. “I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”

— Lauren Oliver

31. “The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.”

— Lauren Oliver

32. “It’s funny, isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”

— Lauren Oliver

33. “Some things are better left buried and forgotten.”

— Lauren Oliver

34. “It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

— Lauren Oliver

35. “Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”

— Lauren Oliver

36. “Hope keeps you alive.”

— Lauren Oliver

37. “You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.”

— Lauren Oliver

38. “What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.”

— Lauren Oliver

39. “No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.”

— Lauren Oliver

40. “And I guess that’s when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.”

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41. “Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”

— Lauren Oliver

42. “Nobody ever said life was fair.”

— Lauren Oliver

43. “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or vice versa.”

— Lauren Oliver

44. “Life isn’t life if you just float through it.”

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45. “There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.”

— Lauren Oliver

46. “We’ll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”

— Lauren Oliver

47. “That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”

— Lauren Oliver

48. “Something must die so that others can live.”

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49. “Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”

— Lauren Oliver

50. “It’s not my fault I can’t be like you, okay? I don’t get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That’s just not how I work. I don’t think I can be fixed.”

— Lauren Oliver