Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

53. “I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like – like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.”

— Lauren Oliver

54. “And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me.”

— Lauren Oliver

55. “Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don’t know. I don’t care anymore. It is different – it is being alive.”

— Lauren Oliver

56. “Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

— Lauren Oliver

57. “Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.”

— Lauren Oliver

58. “And even though I’m standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.”

— Lauren Oliver

59. “Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.”

— Lauren Oliver

60. “This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I’m going to do things right. I’m going to be a different person, a good person. I’m going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.”

— Lauren Oliver

61. “His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.”

— Lauren Oliver

62. “That’s the thing about faith. It works.”

— Lauren Oliver

63. “Of course. That’s what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”

— Lauren Oliver

64. “Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.”

— Lauren Oliver

65. “Most people don’t want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they’ll never learn to paddle on their own.”

— Lauren Oliver

66. “Soy capaz, me atrevo y voy a hacerlo.”

— Lauren Oliver

67. “The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.”

— Lauren Oliver

68. “I know that the whole point – the only point – is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”

— Lauren Oliver

69. “The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”

— Lauren Oliver

70. “Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”

— Lauren Oliver

71. “Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.”

— Lauren Oliver

72. “And for a moment – for a split second – everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.”

— Lauren Oliver

73. “How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”

— Lauren Oliver

74. “Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring.”

— Lauren Oliver

75. “It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don’t care.”

— Lauren Oliver

76. “Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.”

— Lauren Oliver

77. “I’ve been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven’t considered that they’re also penning us in.”

— Lauren Oliver

78. “I said, I prefer the ocean when it’s gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.”

— Lauren Oliver

79. “But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”

— Lauren Oliver

80. “But how could anyone who’s ever seen a summer – big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey – pick the snow?”

— Lauren Oliver

81. “Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”

— Lauren Oliver

82. “But now I give in, let the anger surge. I’m sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I’m the freak. It’s not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.”

— Lauren Oliver

83. “It’s the way he says my name: like music.”

— Lauren Oliver

84. “The first one, we’ll name Blue.”

— Lauren Oliver

85. “Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn’t it?”

— Lauren Oliver

86. “Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that’s done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.”

— Lauren Oliver

87. “Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”

— Lauren Oliver

88. “I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.”

— Lauren Oliver

89. “Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.”

— Lauren Oliver

90. “There’s still always the possibility that I’ve gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don’t think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don’t worry about being crazy – that’s the whole problem.”

— Lauren Oliver

91. “You came form different starts and you’ll come to different ends.”

— Lauren Oliver

92. “There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.”

— Lauren Oliver

93. “Don’t worry about what you’re writing or whether it’s good or even whether it makes sense.”

— Lauren Oliver

94. “This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.”

— Lauren Oliver

95. “He who leaps for the sky may fall, it’s true. But he may also fly.”

— Lauren Oliver

96. “There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.”

— Lauren Oliver

97. “How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust – and also to make you feel so whole?”

— Lauren Oliver

98. “That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.”

— Lauren Oliver

99. “The problem with fairy tales isn’t that they don’t exist. It’s that they do exist, but only for some people.”

— Lauren Oliver

100. “I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I’d rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

— Lauren Oliver