Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

— Lauren Oliver

202. “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

203. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

205. “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

206. “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

207. “Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”

— Lauren Oliver

208. “We all need mantras, I guess – stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.”

— Lauren Oliver

209. “A strange and baffling truth: that the people we’re supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.”

— Lauren Oliver

210. “There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.”

— Lauren Oliver

211. “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

212. “Waste today, want tomorrow...”

— Lauren Oliver

213. “The horizon is touched with red: the sun is rising, a rusty colour, the colour of old blood, and I’m so filled with fear it is an agony, a shredding feeling, worse than any nightmare I’ve ever had.”

— Lauren Oliver

214. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

219. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

222. “He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle – kind, even – like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

225. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

231. “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

232. “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

233. “I don’t love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

236. “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

237. “People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.”

— Lauren Oliver

238. “I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

240. “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

241. “They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”

— Lauren Oliver

242. “Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

244. “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

245. “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

246. “You must hurt, or be hurt.”

— Lauren Oliver

247. “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

248. “I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”

— Lauren Oliver

249. “I get that rush that comes when you know you’re doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.”

— Lauren Oliver

250. “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