Top 50+ Lauren Oliver Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “People are new everyday.”

— Lauren Oliver

452. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

454. “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

455. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

457. “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

458. “Thing that don’t matter when you’ve lived the same day.”

— Lauren Oliver

459. “Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born.”

— Lauren Oliver

460. “Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.”

— Lauren Oliver

461. “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

462. “And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn’t quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.”

— Lauren Oliver

463. “But it’s not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.”

— Lauren Oliver

464. “You may never know Hell, but you will not find Heaven, either.”

— Lauren Oliver

465. “But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.”

— Lauren Oliver

466. “It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.”

— Lauren Oliver

467. “That’s what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.”

— Lauren Oliver

468. “Juliet!? I whip around but not quickly enough. She’s swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies...”

— Lauren Oliver

469. “Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.”

— Lauren Oliver

470. “We stay like that for a long time, side by side, holding hands, until the crickets, obeying the same ancient law that pulls the sun from the sky and throws the moon up after it, that strips autumn down to winter and pushes spring up afterward, obeying the law of closure and new beginnings, send their voices up from the silence, and sing.”

— Lauren Oliver

471. “When you can’t count on anything else, you can count on the news to make you sick.”

— Lauren Oliver

472. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

475. “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

476. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

478. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

483. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

487. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

489. “Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing – pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons.”

— Lauren Oliver

490. “I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.”

— Lauren Oliver

491. “Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But.”

— Lauren Oliver

492. “I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

496. “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

497. “We’re all just a collection of wires pulled tight, charged beyond capacity – a tangle of plugs and valves, waiting for a surge to take down the whole system.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

499. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver