Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.”

— Lauren Oliver

202. “The inside jokes weren’t inside jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

— Lauren Oliver

203. “The rest you have to find out for yourself.”

— Lauren Oliver

204. “He looks funny in a suit jacket, like a bear dressed up in costume for the circus. I would never tell him that, though.”

— Lauren Oliver

205. “Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys – maybe you just have to be angry all the time.”

— Lauren Oliver

206. “I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs.”

— Lauren Oliver

207. “Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.”

— Lauren Oliver

208. “What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures.”

— Lauren Oliver

209. “I guess it was bound to happen eventually. I’ve always known it would. 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 a dense early morning fog, beyond a cliff.”

— Lauren Oliver

210. “Most of the time – 99 percent of the time – you just don’t know how and why the threads are looped together, and that’s okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.”

— Lauren Oliver

211. “So we’re different. Who cares? We chose to escape together. We chose to stay together. We chose each other, didn’t we?”

— Lauren Oliver

212. “She was mine before she was yours.”

— Lauren Oliver

213. “If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

— Lauren Oliver

214. “The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.”

— Lauren Oliver

215. “Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?”

— Lauren Oliver

216. “This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”

— Lauren Oliver

217. “Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.”

— Lauren Oliver

218. “That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.”

— Lauren Oliver

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219. “That’s my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it’s late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It’s times like that when I’m sure that I’m in love.”

— Lauren Oliver

220. “They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.”

— Lauren Oliver

221. “I thought you were dead,” I say. “It almost killed me.” “Did it?” His voice is neutral. “You made a pretty fast recovery.”

— Lauren Oliver

222. “Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt.”

— Lauren Oliver

223. “Amor deliria nervosa isn’t a disease of love. It’s a disease of selfishness.”

— Lauren Oliver

224. “That’s the thing about hearts. They don’t get put back together, not really. They just get patched. But the damage is still there.”

— Lauren Oliver

225. “No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.”

— Lauren Oliver

226. “My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy – but it’s never him, and each time it isn’t, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.”

— Lauren Oliver

227. “Sorry is one of the worst words of all: it hardly ever means what you want it to” -Mia.”

— Lauren Oliver

228. “Waste today, want tomorrow...”

— Lauren Oliver

229. “Every choice is limited. That’s life.”

— Lauren Oliver

230. “For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past – you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future – I can’t wait to see who you’ll be. And in both cases: Thank you.”

— Lauren Oliver

231. “You don’t reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.”

— Lauren Oliver

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232. “So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

— Lauren Oliver

233. “With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.”

— Lauren Oliver

234. “Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie.”

— Lauren Oliver

235. “Another day bleeds out on the horizon, red and pink and gold; staring up at the sky.”

— Lauren Oliver

236. “That’s the thing about best friends. That’s what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.”

— Lauren Oliver

237. “I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence – the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse’s breathing.”

— Lauren Oliver

238. “Eyes the color of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.”

— Lauren Oliver

239. “I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I’m suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he’s looking at me thinking i’m wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, ‘Beautiful’ and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.”

— Lauren Oliver

240. “It does seem like the chocolate brings good luck.”

— Lauren Oliver

241. “A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.”

— Lauren Oliver

242. “I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.”

— Lauren Oliver

243. “But that’s the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track.”

— Lauren Oliver

244. “We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all.”

— Lauren Oliver

245. “Before we were the Monsters of Brickhouse Lane – before everyone from Connecticut to California knew us by that tagline, and blogs ran pictures of our faces, and searching our names led to sites that crashed from all the traffic – we were just girls, and there were only two of us.”

— Lauren Oliver

246. “An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.”

— Lauren Oliver

247. “Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other – they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.”

— Lauren Oliver

248. “Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.”

— Lauren Oliver

249. “The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.”

— Lauren Oliver

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250. “Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.”

— Lauren Oliver