Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m not ugly but I’m not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren’t green or brown, but a muddle. I’m not thin but I’m not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I’m short.”

— Lauren Oliver

52. “If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.”

— 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. “You can’t be really happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. You know that, right?”

— 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. “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

58. “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

59. “Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.”

— Lauren Oliver

60. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

63. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

71. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

77. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

79. “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

80. “And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.”

— Lauren Oliver

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

87. “The first one, we’ll name Blue.”

— Lauren Oliver

88. “That’s what heartbreak feels like: a little death” -Brynn.”

— Lauren Oliver

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

93. “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

94. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

98. “It’s an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.”

— Lauren Oliver

99. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver