Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

105. “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

106. “No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”

— Lauren Oliver

107. “Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain.”

— Lauren Oliver

108. “The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.”

— Lauren Oliver

109. “Now I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.”

— Lauren Oliver

110. “This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”

— Lauren Oliver

111. “I am tired of fighting, of hitting and being hit. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. It’s the upside-down nature of life.”

— Lauren Oliver

112. “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.”

— Lauren Oliver

113. “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”

— Lauren Oliver

114. “Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”

— Lauren Oliver

115. “It’s us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it’s absurd, at that moment I feel pretty damn good about our odds.”

— Lauren Oliver

116. “Here’s another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you’re dead, it’s the only thing that keeps you alive.”

— Lauren Oliver

117. “For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I’m not certain of anything anymore. I don’t know what will happen –.”

— Lauren Oliver

118. “Otra cosa que merece la pena recordar: la esperanza nos mantiene vivos. Incluso cuando estamos muertos, nos mantiene vivos.”

— Lauren Oliver

119. “She knew, now, that there was always light – beyond the dark, and the fear, out of the depths; there was sun to reach for, and air and space and freedom. There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”

— Lauren Oliver

120. “I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.”

— Lauren Oliver

121. “Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.”

— Lauren Oliver

122. “Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”

— Lauren Oliver

123. “Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear, some behind a different face or personality, some behind early morning fog, beyond a cliff. That’s why the cure is so important. That’s why we need it.”

— Lauren Oliver

124. “Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”

— Lauren Oliver

125. “For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.”

— Lauren Oliver

126. “Life’s the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.”

— Lauren Oliver

127. “The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.”

— Lauren Oliver

128. “He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”

— Lauren Oliver

129. “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.”

— Lauren Oliver

130. “The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.”

— Lauren Oliver

131. “But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”

— Lauren Oliver

132. “I’m so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.”

— Lauren Oliver

133. “The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.”

— Lauren Oliver

134. “Sometimes I’m afraid to go to sleep because of what I’m leaving behind.”

— Lauren Oliver

135. “Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”

— Lauren Oliver

136. “He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”

— Lauren Oliver

137. “My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed lawn.”

— Lauren Oliver

138. “One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world – your little carved-out sphere – is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.”

— Lauren Oliver

139. “That’s the way I feel, at least: like there’s a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.”

— Lauren Oliver

140. “The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.”

— Lauren Oliver

141. “You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.”

— Lauren Oliver

142. “We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.”

— Lauren Oliver

143. “Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.”

— Lauren Oliver

144. “I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took.”

— Lauren Oliver

145. “He doesn’t love me. He never loved me. All along, he’s loved her.”

— Lauren Oliver

146. “I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.”

— Lauren Oliver

147. “He’s stuck with me and I’m stuck with him. We’re stuck. That’s what growing up is all about, I guess.”

— Lauren Oliver

148. “Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.”

— Lauren Oliver

149. “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”

— Lauren Oliver

150. “Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of cold things, and days that look like darkness.”

— Lauren Oliver