Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “When you can’t count on anything else, you can count on the news to make you sick.”

— Lauren Oliver

452. “But that’s the beauty of life: time if yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second’s breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.”

— Lauren Oliver

453. “Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

— Lauren Oliver

454. “When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die. I’m too tired to be frightened. Above me is blackness, and all around me is blackness, and the forest sounds are a symphony to sing me out of this world. I am already at my funeral.”

— Lauren Oliver

455. “We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.”

— Lauren Oliver

456. “Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450.”

— Lauren Oliver

457. “The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.”

— Lauren Oliver

458. “I’m dead, but I can’t stop living.”

— Lauren Oliver

459. “People need other people to feel things for them,” she said. “It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”

— Lauren Oliver

460. “This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don’t see anyone’s privates.”

— Lauren Oliver

461. “There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.”

— Lauren Oliver

462. “It’s much better this way,” he said. “Change is just another word for disappointment, you know.”

— Lauren Oliver

463. “He gives my hand a quick squeeze, surprising me- there are somethings, I guess, that come naturally, even if you’ve never done them before.”

— Lauren Oliver

464. “I feel as though I’m in a dream, where strange things are happening but they don’t feel strange. Everything is cloudy – everything is wrapped in a fog – and I’m filled from head to toe with the single, burning desire to get closer to the music, to hear the music better, for the music to go on and on and on.”

— Lauren Oliver

465. “The old Lena is dead,” I say, and then push past him, back down through the gully toward the camp. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt, or be hurt. Alex.”

— Lauren Oliver

466. “People are new everyday.”

— Lauren Oliver

467. “But all you see is the crap. So you don’t have to believe in anything. So you’ll have an excuse to fail.”

— Lauren Oliver

468. “But it was true she had never hurt anyone to get what she wanted. Was that what made her less than human?”

— Lauren Oliver

469. “I have Lena back again, but she is changed, and it seems that every day she grows a little more different, a little more distant, as though I am watching her walk down a darkening hallway.”

— Lauren Oliver

470. “I’m mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.”

— Lauren Oliver

471. “If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.”

— Lauren Oliver

472. “It’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

473. “She had never seen snow before, except in TV shows and movies. It had looked to her like the stars were flaking out of the sky. It had looked like thousands of fireflies in the moonlight; like breathlessness, like time stopping, like the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.”

— Lauren Oliver

474. “If you don’t watch out, they’ll grab you. They’ll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.”

— Lauren Oliver

475. “I wasn’t just thinking of me. I was thinking of her, too.”

— Lauren Oliver

476. “That’s what you do for family. Anything.”

— Lauren Oliver

477. “I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.”

— Lauren Oliver

478. “And you can’t love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”

— Lauren Oliver

479. “No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.”

— Lauren Oliver

480. “Certain stories must remain mine, so that there is a me to remain.”

— Lauren Oliver

481. “She had no context. She was a word on a blank page. There was no way to read meaning into it. No wonder she felt so alone.”

— Lauren Oliver

482. “The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.”

— Lauren Oliver

483. “Why couldn’t you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?”

— Lauren Oliver

484. “This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.”

— Lauren Oliver

485. “I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for...”

— Lauren Oliver

486. “And for a split second I find her, silhouetted by the sky, arms outstretched like she’s making snow angels in the air or simply laughing, turning in place; for a split second, she comes to me as the clouds, the sun, the wind touching my face and telling me that somehow, someday, it will be okay.”

— Lauren Oliver

487. “That’s what magic is, Nick,” she says, her voice soft. “It’s just faith...”

— Lauren Oliver

488. “His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.”

— Lauren Oliver

489. “His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.”

— Lauren Oliver

490. “This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.”

— Lauren Oliver

491. “The worst is knowing I can’t tell anybody what’s happening -or what’s happened- to me. Not even my mom.”

— Lauren Oliver

492. “She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn’t last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful.”

— Lauren Oliver

493. “I guess we all have some of these – memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.”

— Lauren Oliver

494. “He passes beyond me and stops by the new girl. “Here,” he says. His voice is gentle, the voice of the old Alex, the Alex of my memories. “I brought you some water. Don’t worry. It’s clean.”

— Lauren Oliver

495. “But it’s not about knowing. It is simply about going forward. The cureds want to know; we have chosen faith instead.”

— Lauren Oliver

496. “Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.”

— Lauren Oliver

497. “Love obeys no laws other than its own.”

— Lauren Oliver

498. “Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.”

— Lauren Oliver

499. “It’s amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.”

— Lauren Oliver

500. “The gun was just the go-between. It was the loneliness that got me in the end.”

— Lauren Oliver