Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.”

— Lauren Oliver

303. “We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”

— Lauren Oliver

304. “A name that brings a taste of sunshine, and of sunshine raising mist from the trees, and of mist reaching toward the sky.”

— Lauren Oliver

305. “For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.”

— Lauren Oliver

306. “It is a strange phrase, ‘falling in love,’” said one of the princesses in the tower. Tears stood out on her cheeks, and even these were pretty, reflecting the blue sky above her. “It sounds like something you do accidentally, by yourself. But isn’t someone else always to blame? They should call it strangling in love. Walloped in love. Knocked-out-of-nowhere in love.”

— Lauren Oliver

307. “This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.”

— Lauren Oliver

308. “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.”

— Lauren Oliver

309. “Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.”

— Lauren Oliver

310. “She didn’t realize how much depends on what you’re remembered for. Sometimes, it’s so much better to be forgotten.”

— Lauren Oliver

311. “That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy.”

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312. “I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him.”

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313. “I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.”

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314. “Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.”

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315. “My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.”

— Lauren Oliver

316. “That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn’t quite speak.”

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317. “The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do is run.”

— Lauren Oliver

318. “That’s the thing: We didn’t really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.”

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319. “Love obeys no laws other than its own. That’s what always made it frightening.”

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320. “Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.”

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321. “But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”

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322. “It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that I’ve forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.”

— Lauren Oliver

323. “I suppose, in some sense, wills are like maps: they are the imprint we leave, the places our affections have been entrenched; the work we have done; the money we have burrowed away; the furrows and the paths that lead back to spaces we have gone, and marked, and loved.”

— Lauren Oliver

324. “It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.”

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325. “Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.”

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326. “At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.”

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327. “They told us that love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.”

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328. “Y todo me parece absurdo, arbitrario. Una se eleva y la otra cae en picado: pura casualidad, un capricho del azar. Todo se reduce a estar en el momento y el lugar adecuados, o no estarlo.”

— Lauren Oliver

329. “You see, we didn’t know.”

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330. “Walking into parties always gives me a crampy feeling at the bottom of my stomach. Its a good feeling though: The feeling of knowing anything can happen. Most of the time nothing does, of course. Most of the time one night blends into the next, and weeks blend into weeks, and months into other months. And sooner or later we die.”

— Lauren Oliver

331. “As I lie there with the hurt driving through my chest and the sick, anxious feeling churning through me and the desire for Alex so strong inside of me it’s like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don’t care.”

— Lauren Oliver

332. “Here’s the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you’re one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.”

— Lauren Oliver

333. “Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs.”

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334. “When a heart breaks, a firefly is born.”

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335. “Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

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336. “Popularity’s a weird thing. You can’t really define it, and it’s not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.”

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337. “I guess it’s the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they’re strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.”

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338. “I close my eyes. An image flashes – emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.”

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339. “He was still in love with you, anyway.”

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340. “Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.”

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341. “I used to think that’s what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”

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342. “Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from – this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”

— Lauren Oliver

343. “You can’t tell me what to feel.”

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344. “There are some losses we never get over.”

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345. “Decaf. The single worst word in the English language.”

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346. “Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.”

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347. “Fear. Blame. Don’t forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium.”

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348. “Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die.”

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349. “Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.”

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350. “I remember something Mrs. Harbor once said on one of her crazy tangents in English: that Plato believed that the whole world – everything we can see – was just like shadows on a cave wall. We can’t actually see the real thing, the thing that’s casting the shadow in the first place.”

— Lauren Oliver