Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.”

— Lauren Oliver

452. “You have to learn that people are always listening.”

— Lauren Oliver

453. “We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it’s as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get...”

— Lauren Oliver

454. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

456. “He looked at me like I was beautiful.”

— Lauren Oliver

457. “That’s what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable – and all the time we’re being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.”

— Lauren Oliver

458. “Things That Don’t Matter When You’ve Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.”

— Lauren Oliver

459. “I’ve relived that moment so often in my head, I can never be sure what really happened and what we only embellished afterward. But does it matter? We make reality our own, handle it until it is as soft as pressed butter.”

— Lauren Oliver

460. “It is war now, and armies need symbols.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

464. “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

465. “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

466. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

468. “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

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

— 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. “People are new everyday.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

474. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

476. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

478. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

483. “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

484. “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

485. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

490. “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

491. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

493. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

495. “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

496. “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

497. “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

498. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

500. “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

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