Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “But it’s not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

454. “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.”

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

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456. “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...”

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457. “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.”

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458. “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

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

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460. “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

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

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

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463. “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

464. “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.”

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

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466. “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

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

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

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469. “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.”

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

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

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472. “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.”

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473. “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.”

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474. “People are new everyday.”

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475. “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.”

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

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477. “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.”

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478. “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.”

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

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

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

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482. “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.”

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

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

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

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486. “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.”

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487. “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.”

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

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489. “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.”

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

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

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

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493. “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...”

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494. “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.”

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

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496. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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